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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jayoungr" data-source="post: 7884328" data-attributes="member: 6702445">Well, the first time this happened to me, it was the endboss of a whole campaign (Esmae Amarantha in DDAL season 4).  She had another of those super-charm abilities, where the target would just freeze and be enthralled by her beauty.  [ETA: I misremembered; the target wasn't compelled to freeze.  Her charm ability works almost exactly the same as the vampire's ability.]  The problem wasn't so much the length of time needed for the combat as the fact that she charmed a couple of PCs right off the bat and they didn't get to participate in the final battle at all.  I think the players found that seriously unfun.Looking back, I probably should have had one of the boss's allies unwisely use an AoE spell or something like that, to jolt them out of it.</blockquote>