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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9447326" data-attributes="member: 29398">Dominate doesn't give you immediate and complete knowledge of what the dominated person can do, does it?&nbsp; As in, what spells he-she has or whether he-she can cast spells at all (unless you've already seen said person cast a spell, of course).I mean, the way I see Dominate Person is that among the first things you-as-dominator have to do is have a chat with the target during which the target tells you everything it can do (which is kind of moot - and makes the spell pointless IMO - if the duration is now only 1 minute; I'd prefer somehting more like the HP Imperius curse, much slower-boiling but also much longer-lasting)So sure, you can tell your one-round-dominated target to cast its most damaging spell at an ally...and all the dominated target has to do is decide to cast it as a ritual and poof - your dominate has ended ages before the spell resolves; and when it does resolve (if the caster can't self-interrupt) the caster just puts the effect into some random nearby tree. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9447326, member: 29398"] Dominate doesn't give you immediate and complete knowledge of what the dominated person can do, does it? As in, what spells he-she has or whether he-she can cast spells at all (unless you've already seen said person cast a spell, of course). I mean, the way I see [I]Dominate Person[/I] is that among the first things you-as-dominator have to do is have a chat with the target during which the target tells you everything it can do (which is kind of moot - and makes the spell pointless IMO - if the duration is now only 1 minute; I'd prefer somehting more like the HP Imperius curse, much slower-boiling but also much longer-lasting) So sure, you can tell your one-round-dominated target to cast its most damaging spell at an ally...and all the dominated target has to do is decide to cast it as a ritual and poof - your dominate has ended ages before the spell resolves; and when it does resolve (if the caster can't self-interrupt) the caster just puts the effect into some random nearby tree. :) [/QUOTE]

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