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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5912685" data-attributes="member: 386">(pronounced &quot;Gesh&quot;, apparently)A few months back my PC was dealing with an adult red dragon.&nbsp; He was a little too tough for me to take on by my own, and the other PC in the party - a Githyanki - wanted to make friends with him.&nbsp; I thought - as a Chaotic Evil character - that making friends with a Chaotic Evil dragon was probably a bad idea, so I started prepping for an eventual fight.I was looking at Geas and I couldn't figure out how it was supposed to work.&nbsp; Is it the case that the victim of the curse can't avoid taking the prescribed action, or can the victim take any action and take 3d6 damage each day that it doesn't comply?The latter doesn't seem to make sense to me, but:the subject takes 3d6 points of damage each day it does not attempt to follow the geas/quest...which suggests to me that it can attempt not to follow the Geas.&nbsp; Which makes the spell rather worthless.&nbsp; Lesser Geas doesn't have that same &quot;attempt&quot; clause.&nbsp; It does have a save, but a one-round casting time instead of 10 minutes.Anyway, I'm confused.(In the game I ended up tricking the dragon into thinking I was casting Scry - luckily it failed its Spellcraft check, though I was ready for a fight anyway.&nbsp; We used the dragon to kill tons of enemies as well as a &quot;motor&quot; for my ship.&nbsp; Then we killed it - breaking the Geas, but I think a crit + Deep Impact + Power Attack did it in.&nbsp; At any rate, we put it down pretty easily.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 5912685, member: 386"] (pronounced "Gesh", apparently) A few months back my PC was dealing with an adult red dragon. He was a little too tough for me to take on by my own, and the other PC in the party - a Githyanki - wanted to make friends with him. I thought - as a Chaotic Evil character - that making friends with a Chaotic Evil dragon was probably a bad idea, so I started prepping for an eventual fight. I was looking at Geas and I couldn't figure out how it was supposed to work. Is it the case that the victim of the curse can't avoid taking the prescribed action, or can the victim take any action and take 3d6 damage each day that it doesn't comply? The latter doesn't seem to make sense to me, but: [indent]the subject takes 3d6 points of damage each day it does not attempt to follow the geas/quest[/indent] ...which suggests to me that it can [i]attempt[/i] not to follow the Geas. Which makes the spell rather worthless. Lesser Geas doesn't have that same "attempt" clause. It does have a save, but a one-round casting time instead of 10 minutes. Anyway, I'm confused. (In the game I ended up tricking the dragon into thinking I was casting Scry - luckily it failed its Spellcraft check, though I was ready for a fight anyway. We used the dragon to kill tons of enemies as well as a "motor" for my ship. Then we killed it - breaking the Geas, but I think a crit + Deep Impact + Power Attack did it in. At any rate, we put it down pretty easily.) [/QUOTE]

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