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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8044247" data-attributes="member: 29398">The way I'd do it is simple: higher level spells overwrite lower level spells; and the later spell overwrites the earlier if they're the same level.  Lower level spells arriving after a higher level spell still work but Do Nothing until the higher-level spell goes away.A somewhat ludicrous example: some poor peasant who is fated to never make a save is the subject of some big prophecy, and competing groups A, B, and C are trying to capture said peasant for their own ends. The numbers before each event are initiative counts.Round 1:19 - peasant is Charmed by Bard A.17 - peasant is Dominated by Wizard B. (this overwrites the charm on 19)14 - peasant is Charmed by Wizard C. (this has no effect yet as it can't trump the Dominate, but is still sitting on the peasant...)End of round: peasant is Dominated by B but will be Charmed to C if the Dominate can be broken.Round 2:19 - peasant is again Charmed by Bard A. (this overwrites the charm from 14 last round but still can't beat the dominate, so it just sits there)17 - wizard B maintains Dominate on peasant16 - wizard B is killed by a Fighter from group A.  (dominate ends, charm from 19 this round now takes effect)14 - peasant is again Charmed by Wizard C. (this overwrites the charm from 19 this round)End of round: peasant is Charmed to Wizard C. (and if Bard A is smart she'll use her next round action to Charm Wizard C...)I've had to referee situations like this.  The worst I ever had was a situation where the party had three different people with Charm and the enemy had two; and the party didn't get along well.  They ended up in a charm circle, where A ch B ch C ch D ch E ch A; the circle only broke when someone killed one of the links.  What a mess! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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