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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 3929095" data-attributes="member: 51942">And, the way I read it, also no Effect: spells - so no fireballs or scorching ray's or whatnot.  Only Target: spells (like hold person, or baleful polymorph) can be redirected.  Also, though you can redirect something like charm person, it's not as useful since the caster remains the caster, right?Also, since dispel magic automatically succeeds against any spell you've cast, it's annoying but not hard to dispel a cast someone has "retargetted", should you need to.  Something like Hold Person is even dismissable, so a standard action suffices to end an unfortunate spell (not that standard actions are cheap, but they might be cheaper than casting dispel magic).However, I'm now wonder how it interacts with things like "Suggestion" - I assume that the caster first casts the spell and as part of the casting, specifies the suggestion the creature must follow.  However, you could imagine that the spell includes only the basic "suggestibility" and that you must redirect that part then, and thus that the original caster knows his spell was redirected before giving the text of the suggestion.  I prefer the first interpretation, but the second is not inconceivable.</blockquote>