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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6647985" data-attributes="member: 92511">Sounds like a very good tactic. And the party should have successes with it...but they can not use the "I win" button all of the time and, as the DM, that's kind of your job to see to.The easiest/most obvious will be going up against enemy spellcasters who can Counterspell the effect right off, so it doesn't take effect. Following that, Dispel Magic all around. Works for enemy mages or clerics of sufficient level, druids you may have peeved off, bards...heck just about anybody can dispel magic.Can't hypnotize what you can't see/can't see your pattern...Darkness sphere throughout the area to break p line of sight out to put a little crimp in that style. A pack of Drow or Tieflings with the ability (or ANY 3rd level or better arcane caster) can throw some Darkness sphere either on or around the party. Even, if there are already a bunch of hypnotized folks, throw darkness over them...next action, they'll be un-hypnotized and you can lower the darkness when the concentrating caster ends their Pattern spell. Fog cloud? Wall of Stone...any opaque spell that is going to block the pattern from being seen. Heck! A Minor -friggin- Image or any Illusion spell. *Poof* there's a wall/door/waterfall in front of you. Conjuration specialist's creation ability *Poof* blindfolds/bandanas over your eyes. Yes, you will suffer for a round, maybe, or a penalty to try to fight while blind/keeping your eyes closed or covered. But you're not going to be out of the fight entirely. Blind enemies! Spell's not gonna work on them. The only ones that come to mind, immediately, are Grimlocks. But if you're in a subterranean area for an adventure, some blind giant lizards or snakes (like real life, that have evolved to be blind since they are in complete darkness all of the time) that hunt off of smell. Bats! Obviously. Bats aren't going to be effects by a hypno pattern.So, it is a very very effective spell. It is. But there are ways around it. Just need to give the foes they are facing a bit of magic of their own...or eliminate the problem area (their sight/seeing the hypno pattern).Can't do it every fight, of course. But a couple sprinkled here or there...and certainly for "big fights" that are supposed to be climactic/challenging moments. May be enough to break the party thinking of "do this all of the time."</blockquote>

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