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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7909560" data-attributes="member: 6683613">I'll register my qualified agreement with this. Reliable long-term mass mind control is an extremely powerful effect and 5E treats it as such. [USER=6855114]@Helldritch[/USER] has described this NPC as, basically, a random schmuck. A random schmuck with this kind of power is going to raise questions for me, not so much as a matter of mechanical consistency, but as a matter of narrative and setting logic: Where the heck did this guy come from? Why has nobody heard of him or had a problem with him before? How come he's using this power to do what he's doing rather than any of the myriad other things he could do with it? And so on. I'm not saying there are no possible answers to these questions. But to present him as actually just a random schmuck doesn't seem like a satisfying one.The PHB may not have an exhaustive list of all the 1st-level spells in the world, but the alternate 1st-level spells an NPC learns shouldn't look like 7th-level spells.</blockquote>