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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1662594" data-attributes="member: 9254">With the only caveat of "if he thinks about it."  Let's say you charm a guy and spend the next few hours with them.  You get him to buy drinks, dinner, and generally mooch off of him for a night.  For the duration of the spell, he's fine with what happened because it was the right thing to do.  IIRC, the charm spells last a long time (hours/level for Charm Person, days/level for Charm Monster) so if you get out of sight of them an no one brings it up again, you won't *realize* you were charmed.  After the charm wears off if he wonders why he's low on cash he'll realize something's up.  If he's the fighter IMC who never spends a second thought on his finances, he'd have no idea.  Charm person, well, with only a few hours after the fact anything significant makes it more likely they'll realize it.  Charm Monster means it's more than a week 'til they get a chance and I know I'm likely to forget what I was doing two or three days ago, let alone last week.  The best uses for Charm I've seen, FYI, have been when the person using it was really nice to the target.  Half-orc sorceror charms a barkeep, tips him heavily all night, and makes a concerted effort to be diplomatic.  The barkeep then has no reason to question the Charm because that guy's just so nice and easy to be around, especially for a half-orc.  From then on he's got no trouble in that bar and can relax knowing the barkeep is fairly fond of him.</blockquote>

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