Act on and Compel

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Act on verb - Carry further or advance.

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Compel and act on are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Compel" instead a verb "Act on".

Compel verb - To cause (a person) to give in to pressure.

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Act on and compel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act on" instead a verb "Compel".

Nearby Words: compelling, compelled

Gorath from Betrayal at Krondor, though he's less a defector and more someone whom the self-destructive ways of his people compel to use methods to protect them that are seen as traitorous by most of his kind - except for those who share his views, but don't nearly have the guts to act on them.

Source: Defector from Decadence
Bluff or Lie is often presented as its own persuasion mode, but it is actually very different from the rest: by using it, a PC tries to pass a falsehood off as truth to an NPC, which may compel them to act on this information without the PC actually directing them to do so.

Source: Multiple Persuasion Modes

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