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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 1656178" data-attributes="member: 5143">This is a hard one to answer.  There is no real information one way or the other.  I think this spell is probably THE hardest to adjudicate as a DM.  It brings up many questions:  What exactly would someone do for their best friend?  What if they are evil and don't care about anyone, even their best friend?  Does charm even have any affect?I think, in this case, it is up to the individual DMs.  I would suggest that although someone might realize SOMETHING has happened to them, they are very likely to just write it off as unimportant if the person who charmed them is there to say "Don't worry about it, it was nothing."  How they feel about it afterwards depends on the person maybe, and the DM as well.  Does the person still feel good towards the other person?  Well, if they were treated well the whole time, maybe.  It all comes down to how much you play up each part of the spell.  I see it going two ways:"Wow, that was an amazing night.  Still, why did I kiss her on the first date, that isn't like me.  Also, I really didn't know her all that well, why is it I let her take me somewhere I didn't really want to go?  And there was that strange feeling I felt at the beginning of the night.  It was just before I started acting strangely."OR"That was so amazing.  I was so in love that I didn't even feel like myself.  I can't wait to see her again."  (likely forgetting all about the saving throw because they were told to, and they had much more interesting things to remember)The difference between the two might just be the intelligence of the person you charmed (whether or not they figure it out).Of course, mean DMs might opt for a third option:"I've been charmed all night!  I did all sorts of things I never would have thought of doing and I've been used by someone else all night, and magic was used to make me LIKE it!  When I find that person, I'm going to kill them."In my opinion, most people should be weak willed enough that unless you ask them to do things severly beyond what they would do normally, they likely wouldn't notice when the spell wore off.Majoru Oakheart</blockquote>

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