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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DogBackward" data-source="post: 5822627" data-attributes="member: 50642">Actually, in your example, the target of the Dominate Person would be unaffected completely by the Dominate Person.When a spell has a casting time of "1 round", it doesn't mean it takes a full round action and then it's cast. It means it takes a full round action, and then it's cast at the start of your next turn. So, for example, Sleep doesn't go off the same round you cast it, it goes off just before you take any actions on your next turn. Protection from Evil makes the target immune to any further attempts to hit it with possession or control while it lasts, so the Vampire's Dominate Person would fail on that target. If you don't cast it immediately, then the Vampire will always have an action to give a command, since he will have started his turn already.So, in your example:1. Vampire begins casting Dominate Person. Turn ends.2. Ally casts Protection from Evil on the assumed target of Dominate Person.3. Vampire finishes casting Dominate Person on its next turn, and is unable to target the immune character.However, targeting happens when the spell is finished, not when it begins. So the Vampire, assuming it realizes that you've put a Protection from Evil on the target (with a Spellcraft check), will simply choose a different target to Dominate. Most likely you, since you've just shown that you have defenses against its powers.Your best bet to defend against a Dominate like that is a Circle of Protection.As for your actual question, I would rule that the "... exclusion of all other activities except those necessary for day-to-day survival (such as sleeping, eating, and so forth)." part is part of the control that's suppressed by the Protection. Which means the character would be able to act normally.</blockquote>

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