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<blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 1657254" data-attributes="member: 9249">I'd say their opinion afterwards depends entirely on how they were treated while charmed-- the magic is no longer in effect, but if the sorceress treated him nicely the entire night, he's going to remember the kind treatment. Of course, a low Charisma might affect this anyway, since he'd also remember her mannerisms... but Sorceresses are not normally low Charisma creatures.&nbsp;Of course, knowing he's been charmed will make a huge difference. If you decide he's aware of the effect afterwards, it depends on his reaction to being magically manipulated. For some people, not being mistreated or exploited during the spell's effect will be a strong mitigating factor, while others will be unforgivingly outraged. (I tend towards the latter, especially due to priding myself in the fact that I'm damned near impossible to manipulate via mundane means.) In either case, if they're aware they've been charmed, I'd assume that their starting opinion is the best possible outcome, with a much worse opinion far likelier, unless they were remarkably well-treated during the spell's duration.&nbsp;There's not really any skill in D&amp;D to cover introspection. I could, perhaps, see a Sense Motive check, after the fact, to examine one's own motivations-- Sense Motive, being linked to Wisdom, seems like a natural choice. Without the requisite K: Arcana or Spellcraft check, I wouldn't let him know exactly what was wrong, but Sense Motive should be enough to know something was wrong with his own behavior-- with the DC set by how out of character he had been acting. Trusting people might wonder if she reminded them of someone else, or somehow or another unconsciously appealed to them, while more paranoid types would probably immediately assume magical coercion. (Even, or perhaps especially if it were not actually the case.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viktyr Gehrig, post: 1657254, member: 9249"] I'd say their opinion afterwards depends entirely on how they were treated while [i]charmed[/i]-- the magic is no longer in effect, but if the sorceress treated him nicely the entire night, he's going to remember the kind treatment. Of course, a low Charisma might affect this anyway, since he'd also remember her mannerisms... but Sorceresses are not normally low Charisma creatures. Of course, knowing he's been [i]charmed[/i] will make a huge difference. If you decide he's aware of the effect afterwards, it depends on his reaction to being magically manipulated. For some people, not being mistreated or exploited during the spell's effect will be a strong mitigating factor, while others will be unforgivingly outraged. (I tend towards the latter, especially due to priding myself in the fact that I'm damned near impossible to manipulate via mundane means.) In either case, if they're aware they've been charmed, I'd assume that their starting opinion is the [b]best[/b] possible outcome, with a much worse opinion far likelier, unless they were remarkably well-treated during the spell's duration. There's not really any skill in D&D to cover introspection. I could, perhaps, see a Sense Motive check, after the fact, to examine one's own motivations-- Sense Motive, being linked to Wisdom, seems like a natural choice. Without the requisite K: Arcana or Spellcraft check, I wouldn't let him know exactly what was wrong, but Sense Motive should be enough to know something was wrong with his own behavior-- with the DC set by how out of character he had been acting. Trusting people might wonder if she reminded them of someone else, or somehow or another unconsciously appealed to them, while more paranoid types would probably immediately assume magical coercion. (Even, or perhaps [b]especially[/b] if it were not actually the case.) [/QUOTE]

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