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<blockquote data-quote="Yesway Jose" data-source="post: 5636040" data-attributes="member: 6679265">You're asking the wrong person regarding Zone of Truth as I don't remember ever using it or seeing it in-game.&nbsp;Generally speaking, many spells in D&amp;D have simulated fantasy fiction expectations. So Polymorph Other simulates a person permanently turned into a frog as per fairy tales and so forth. Baleful Polymorph does not. IMO a proper hypnotism spell would simulate hypnotism as I know in real life, Jedi Mind Trick, etc. A hypnotism spell that fails to do so should not be called hypnotism. Ditto for a hypnotism spell that seems arbitrarily binary in its possible effects. Obviously, this is all subjective to expectations.&nbsp;I know. I made a one/two sentence response a few pages ago to someone, and it somehow ballooned into a few pages.&nbsp;I have to disagree IMO. I don't think about &quot;porting&quot; from 3E to 4E. Obviously, WoTC do have to worry about sacred cows, but that hasn't been my issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yesway Jose, post: 5636040, member: 6679265"] You're asking the wrong person regarding Zone of Truth as I don't remember ever using it or seeing it in-game. Generally speaking, many spells in D&D have simulated fantasy fiction expectations. So Polymorph Other simulates a person permanently turned into a frog as per fairy tales and so forth. Baleful Polymorph does not. IMO a proper hypnotism spell would simulate hypnotism as I know in real life, Jedi Mind Trick, etc. A hypnotism spell that fails to do so should not be called hypnotism. Ditto for a hypnotism spell that seems arbitrarily binary in its possible effects. Obviously, this is all subjective to expectations. I know. I made a one/two sentence response a few pages ago to someone, and it somehow ballooned into a few pages. I have to disagree IMO. I don't think about "porting" from 3E to 4E. Obviously, WoTC do have to worry about sacred cows, but that hasn't been my issue. [/QUOTE]

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