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title: Consequences of the conversation
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  A conversation changes actions, relationships, resources or world state,
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  - id: source-478907b8b62d0628
    title: Potionomics
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/'
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Consequences of the conversation
    description: >-
      A conversation changes actions, relationships, resources or world state,
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      caption: Negotiation changes the potion’s offered price
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    tips:
      - Show the conversation’s result through a changed game state.
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      - title: Potionomics
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  Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on
  2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are
  preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire
  classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and
  editorial review.
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# Consequences of the conversation

id: dialogue--family-consequences
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/dialogue--family-consequences
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/dialogue--family-consequences/

A conversation changes actions, relationships, resources or world state, immediately or later.

## At a glance

![Negotiation changes the potion’s offered price](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/dialogue-potionomics-02.webp)

[Potionomics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. The 20% markup appears in the current price

- Show the conversation’s result through a changed game state.

- [Potionomics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/)

## How it works

What is said changes the available actions, obligations, relationships and subsequent events of the world.

## Variants

### Variants and applications

<a id="family-consequences-variants"></a>

- Changing a task. Rule: Dialogue issues, completes, redirects or closes a game task. <a id="variant-consequences-01"></a>
- Access to the world. Rule: The result opens a place, route, service, product or interaction opportunity. <a id="variant-consequences-02"></a>
- Changing NPC behavior. Rule: The character follows, guards, hides, cooperates, or obstructs after the conversation. <a id="variant-consequences-03"></a>
- Factional reputation. Rule: Position in a conversation changes the group's attitude, even if the individual interlocutor agrees. <a id="variant-consequences-04"></a>
- Redistribution of resources. Rule: Words lead to the transfer of money, objects, labor or control over an object. <a id="variant-consequences-05"></a>
- Promise with verification of fulfillment. Rule: The game later compares the hero's actions with the obligation given in the conversation. <a id="variant-consequences-06"></a>
- Delayed reaction. Rule: Consequence manifests itself through time, another meeting, or a message from a third party. <a id="variant-consequences-07"></a>
- Changing the plot outcome. Rule: Accumulated decisions determine the available resolutions or fate of the characters. <a id="variant-consequences-08"></a>

## Context and limits

Author's working taxonomy compiled for this request. Titles are descriptive; sources confirm individual principles and examples, and not the entire list.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on 2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and editorial review.

- [Potionomics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/) (id: source-478907b8b62d0628)

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