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Do your players constantly bicker or complain about issues both inside and outside of the main campaign action? Do your best ideas fall flat? Have you set up a situation that you now wish you hadn't? Worry no more, because Jason Nelson-Brown has the answers to save your game!  \nCharmed Attacks  \nIn this installment of Save My Game, we look at what happens when PCs are forced to attack one another via charm and dominate spells. Adjudicating the effects of such spells fairly can be a challenge, especially when the characters involved are not especially friendly. What's a DM to do?  \nProblem: Charms and Party Members  \nWhat would happen if an NPC cast charm person on a PC and then told her to attack a party member against whom she had a known grudge? What happens if a dominated character is ordered to attack an ally, and that ally is then charmed and instructed to defend himself? -- Carol  \nAdjudicating charm and dominate spells that involve intraparty conflict can be quite a DMing challenge. And when a grudge already exists between certain party members, can an order to escalate that grudge into physical combat really be considered against the PC's will? Let's look at some of the specific cases noted in the questions above.  \nSolution 1: Knowing is Half the Battle  \nMental control becomes much more useful when you know something about the person you're controlling. If you have some idea how useful a particular character might be, you have a better idea of whether to bother to use a charm person on him at all. You know which questions to ask and which suggestions should sound the most reasonable to him . You also know what subjects to avoid and which languages to use. If you don't have prior knowledge of your subject, a tongues spell is almost a must for charm monster, though dominate person does not require a common language.  \nIn much the same way as an assassin must observe her prey before striking with a death attack, you gain an invaluable advantage by doing a bit of reconnaissance before casting your charm person spell. If  \nyou plan to use any form of mental control, augury or divination might provide clues about the best targets to control and how best to approach them . Skills such as Gather Information and Knowledge (local) can help you understand the local customs and traditions, as well as regional variations and proper forms of address and greeting, so that you can set up your interaction in the most favorable way . A simple spell such as detect thoughts can be a valuable tool for gaining specific information about your proposed subject, and a stronger information-gathering ability --such as the psionic power mind probe--is worth even more, since it can reveal an inter-character grudge that you might be able to exploit!  \nSolution 2: Make Your Own Luck  \nSuppose you can't find a useful grudge or conflict to exploit, or maybe you don't have time to look . You might be able to achieve a similar result by taking matters into your own hands! Use modify memory to implant a false memory of a grudge, or of some offensive incident that would likely spark one.  \nAlternatively, you could use an illusion spell or the psionic power false sensory input to show your subject a hateful incident and plant the seeds of conflict . Once you have a grudge established, the suggestion to attack an ally seems a bit more reasonable to your target .  \nBut what happens if both the attacker and the defender are mind-controlled? Even if attacking your friend does not seem like a reasonable suggestion, defending yourself against that friend's maniacal attacks certainly is. Using lethal force in such a situation may or may not seem reasonable, depending on the nature and effectiveness of your friend's attacks and how easily you can get him raised from the dead. But if your new best friend-- th","cbCaieZQKLFeJgc1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieZQKLFeJgc1","pdf",477201,"English","# Charmed Attacks\n## Problem: Charms and Party Members\n## Solution 1: Knowing is Half the Battle\n## Solution 2: Make Your Own Luck\n## Solution 3: Who's in Charge Here?","[{\"question\":\"Why is adjudicating charm and dominate spells that cause intraparty conflict difficult?\",\"answer\":\"Because the controlled characters may not be friendly and existing grudges can make forced actions feel like they violate the PC’s will. The DM must still apply the rules and judge fairness when motivations clash.\"},{\"question\":\"How can a DM improve how a charm spell outcome feels more believable?\",\"answer\":\"The DM can use reconnaissance and knowledge tools to choose better targets and approaches, including spells like detect thoughts. Alternatively, the controller can implant false memories or create hateful impressions with illusion or psionics.\"},{\"question\":\"What rule approach determines which controller a character obeys under conflicting charm effects?\",\"answer\":\"When two or more mental control effects apply simultaneously, the subject obeys to the extent each allows; if orders conflict, controllers make opposed Charisma checks to determine which instruction the creature follows.\"}]","Save My Game - Adjudicating Charm Spells, Part 2 - DM advice for D&D | PDF",1791251768]