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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SkyCAM" data-source="post: 5743327" data-attributes="member: 6686348">We all pretty much know that this particular compulsion spell is a mess.Our group has been arguing about the limitations of this spell ever since 3.0/3.5 came out. I was reading a Realms of the Dragons short story the other day and also remember how Araevin Teshurr was dominated in Forsaken House. It's pretty obvious that the dominated person is imprisoned within his own mind and nothing more but a mere puppet. Besides of the difficulties what "against ones nature" means there are other implications. In the short story I was astonished to learn, that the dominator can command the subject to activate magic items using a command word.We always kind of ruled that the dominated person cannot be compelled to cast spells under the influence of a dominate spell because of the complexities of the art. Plus how would the caster know what spells his subject would have at his disposal? He cannot mind read and doesn't get to access the subject memories. I could have sworn I read an article about spellcasting being not possible under a dominate person effect. As with clerics since its the god granting them the ability to cast a given spell this becomes even more complicated.Does anyone know if this topic was ever discussed in a Dragon/Dungeon magazine? I was looking through my magazine stash but couldn't find anything on the topic.</blockquote>