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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 471973" data-attributes="member: 3433">Charm use> Charm Person is not powerful enough to make someone get a trusted friend (read: fellow PC) killedCorrect, but in this case, the Ranger's best way to "Protect" the dragon was to try to neutralize or incapacitate the Sorcerer.  I asked the player how he intended to protect the dragon, and he chose to attack the Sorcerer!  The reasoning was actually fairly sound.  First of all, the ranger is not good, and is instead Lawful Neutral (vindictive style).  The ranger witnessed the dragon get attacked by the sorcerer after the charm went into effect and no one else even attacked it.  He suspected that his full damage would at most only knock him unconscious.  Next, both the cleric and one other character were nearby to aid the sorcerer.   Also, at that point only the Ranger and Sorcerer had managed to damage the dragon, so the sorcerer was about the only threat in the Ranger's mind.  By attacking the sorcerer, the sorcerer would likely have to turn defensive, and either not cast or start casting spells to stop the ranger instead of focusing on the dragon.  Together, all those reasons seemed to make pretty good case for the ranger going after the sorcerer.  So I allowed the Ranger to do so.  The attack hit, and the damage roll was fairly good, but not enough to knock down the sorcerer, and on the next round someone else dispelled the charm.  I thought we handled the charm pretty well.A better option may have been to try grappling with the sorcerer instead, but I didn't consider that nor did the ranger's player when we were playing.  In the future, that's probably how I would rule this kind of situation.  As it turned out, the attack didn't hurt the party very much and it added to the dramatics of the fight.  It would have been interesting to see what happened if the raging barbarian had been charmed instead.  In that case, the charmed character might be even more prone to violence than the ranger was.</blockquote>

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