drewkitty ~..~ wrote:True Names are much more concerned with the soul and nature of a person then with what the world around the person think who they are. Some people might not be affected except for the new name, while others might have their lives turned upside down.
It is for the target of the spell to decide what, if any, of a tech info structure to be changed if they can.
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Speaking from a POV from outside the game. This might be a way to just avoid a True Name targeted spell or to totally remake the char. Depending what is decided upon by the GM and player. However, the greater the change the greater the overwriting the char experiences. So it is possible to force a class change if that is what is decided on, even to the point of turning a Psion into a mage (this would take time for the char to make the change, with the psionic powers ether fading or just gone) or even a personality rewrite.
I would recommend that any drastic change to a PC not happen w/o the player's consent.
In NPC's the amount of change Can Be linked to how badly the saving throw is failed.
how (and why) would changing a persons True Name do something like change your OCC, let alone something dramatic like remove psionics? True Names (at least in Palladium) don't control reality, nor does any of the canon ways to change your name do anything other than...change your name. The only effect of Names in Palladium has to do with targeting magic, and saves.
A Power of Plot like spell that can rewrite reality might be interesting, but it shouldn't be a level 9 spell Archmagic or not. That's pretty much the definition of Spell of Legend after all....