Charm Person help

[AuraSeer]

Anyway I just get the feeling sometimes that when you offer advice, you do it in a way that says "isn't the answer already staring you in the face?"

That's because it is, much of the time. Sometimes it's hard to answer very simple questions without sounding superior.

Easy questions-- ones with answers clearly listed in the rules-- don't usually make for interesting threads. Lots of people will just pass them by without bothering to answer. That means those people that do answer them, answer more than their share. So you end up with normally friendly posters, like Hyp, having lots of posts that boil down to "try reading the book, hoser."

 

[Malakye]

To the original question, I think it depends on what the character who charmed the halfling does, the intelligence of the halfling, the halflings relationship to the other halflings prior to being charmed, etc.

If the halfling isn't very intelligent, he may be confused by the combat going on around him and move towards the charmer to protect him.
If the halflings are savage and generally backstab each other anyway, he may attack the other halflings.
If the halflings are close friends, he may try to convince the other halflings to stop attacking, or try to subdue them.

I'm not sure about the exact rules on this, if there are any, but in my campaign you have to be able to communicate with the creature to convince it to do anything. Also, if you act in a way that would normally cause the creature to be hostile towards you it gets another saving throw or if you are extremely cruel it will cause the creature to be hostile, breaking the charm.

Remember, the charmed creature is your friend, not your puppet.