Editing Questions/Question 435

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    |AskedBy=viciousabyss
	|DateAsked=2025-12-06
	|QuestionText=Wow, I should have asked this one william years ago and somehow it only just occurred to me. Apologies.<br><br>Eli is a D&amp;D-flavoured elf, and D&amp;D elves have advantage to avoid or end the "charmed" condition, such as with spells like <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Charm%20Person#content">charm person</a>. The charmed condition is as follows: "A charmed creature can’t attack the charmer or target the charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects. The charmer has advantage on any ability check to interact socially with the creature." On a mechanics level, you can see that a wisdom saving throw is required to avoid the effects of <i>charm person,</i> and Eli has a +7 to those rolls, plus advantage from being an elf, meaning he rolls two d20s and takes the higher number.<br><br>I am wondering if this lowers his susceptibility to Calling magics in Karteria, the mind-control from Patho-Gen, or his force-imprint to Patho-Gen?
    |DateAnswered=2025-12-08
    |AnswerText=That does sound like it would give him an innate resistance to those forms of magic, yes! If you would like to (in future, at least...) have Eli have an easier time shaking off, or otherwise no-selling uses of Calling/force-imprints against him, you're welcome to do so. <br><br>(By a similar token, should a player with a character with similar resistances want to be fully susceptible, that's also fine. In those cases, the charm effect might follow along a different enough magical path so the resistance doesn't apply/their Natural Soul is interfering with the rolls, etc.<br><br>Basically it's up to player discretion, how protected a character can be from these effects.)
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