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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 1135668" data-attributes="member: 1331">This is hardly as simple as you imply. As soon as you attack or do anything else threatening, the charm is immediately broken, so unless you can pull off a one-shot kill you are out of luck. (And if you can kill somebody in a single shot, you don't need the charm in the first place.)Taking someone's weapon is hardly fatal. You get one swing, which is not likely to kill anyone, and then the victim is free. Assuming you're a caster and he's somebody with a low Will save, he can probably take the sword right back from you immediately.Sending a character one room over will not instantly kill him. A charmed character does not become stupid, and despite your requests he can retreat when he encounters the monsters that outclass him. If he sets off a trap, he can survive one shot and then bug out. (If the dungeon contains an Instant Death trap that cannot be avoided, shoot your DM in the face with a bazooka and start over.)If you have access to instant-death poison whose save DC is high enough to kill this character, you have no need of the charm. You could have killed him with a blowgun or a shuriken. Telling the victim to close his eyes does not make him helpless, so he is not subject to CDG. The only way closed eyes would lead to a one-hit kill is if you had an assassin ally who could make a death attack; again, the scenario does not require charm.</blockquote>