and it works effectively for short periods of time, or, being high level caster, quite well when say you locate a spider, dominate it, and have it attack other Drow. Spaß.

Hello all, I'm just curious to know how effective the Charm spells are in the game, do they still affect NPC merchant appraisal checks, I'm also thinking of using Mass Charm in PVE, I'm wondering if anyone has had any major success with them?

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I've seen it used in an RP situation where there was an angry drunk half orc about to attack a wizard for insulting him. Made it so he wasn't angry to the caster anymore. He was still a drunk half orc though. Hard to fix that.

But in hope of steering this topic away from spam; Why must everything be solved by magic, Really?

Charm spells are not concidered hostile however, so you can cast all of them safely without breaking invisibility or greater sanctuary. as such they work great for pacifying enemies without it being a hostile action. Not that you need it, with invis/GS but just saying.. Mechanically OR icly, I don't think charm spells are hostile at all.

Peaceful magical sollution to a hostile problem.

If you have a broken leg, yo want it cured the fastest and least painful way possible, right? Magic.
If the magic is available, why not use it?

Least painful? I can imagine your broken leg rearranging itself and knitting the tissues back together in the space of 5 seconds being unimaginably painful, though at least it'd be over quickly enough. Besides, if you're going to get iffy about magic, let's say the two halves of the broken bone weren't in the natural position to attatch themselves to each other, and they healed with a weird angle so you couldn't walk properly. Lulz.

If you have a broken leg, yo want it cured the fastest and least painful way possible, right? Magic.
If the magic is available, why not use it?

Though if from what I've read on the Amia timeline, in a few years, Mystra will be killed by Shar and Cyric and the Spellplague will hit Toril and all mages (Wizards and Sorceress and other Arcane users) will either go die, go made or insane or simply lose the ability to cast. Though casters of the divine will be unaffected, well with the exception of those who are priests of Mystra.

Basically anything you've read set past 'here ends canon Forgotten Realms' is irrelevant to the campaign, and only what the DMs say happens actually applies.