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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 547434" data-attributes="member: 3146">Also, as I understand it, Suggestion does not normally actually last 1 hour/level in the way that you're thinking of it. The description of the spell in the PH seems to suggest that 1 hour/level is the maximum amount of time a suggestion can lie dormant. The examples given are, IIRC, a pool of acid (obviously some kind of acid that actually looks like water-- H2SO4 perhaps)is really water and a dip would be refreshing, hold back a red dragon for "just a few seconds", and that a knight should give his horse to the first peasant he comes across.Now, in the first example, it doesn't seem reasonable that Suggestion would compel the subject to stay "taking a dip" in the pool of acid for 5+hours. Even Dominate person (a spell of the same school and subtype and two levels higher to boot) couldn't do that. I imagine that, if successful, the subject would wade in, immerse himself in acid, and then realize that it wasn't water (as he took 10d6 of damage or so) and get out as quickly as possible.Similarly, holding back the red dragon for just a few seconds obviously won't take 5+ hours. Instead, it will last for a round or two and if the NPC still survives, he'll then be free of the compulsion since he has held back the dragon for just a few seconds.The third instance of the knight specifically deals with the duration. Assuming he fails the save, he will give his warhorse to the first peasant he comes across in the next 5+ hours. If he manages to go 5+ hours without meeting a peasant, the suggestion will go away. If he meets a peasant in hour 2, he gives his warhorse away. However, as I understand it, now that the suggestion is fulfilled, he could buy another warhorse during hour 4 and wouldn't have to worry about giving it away to a peasant a half hour later.</blockquote>

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