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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1885600" data-attributes="member: 15651">My expectation is that the PCs will try and play the charm as best they can.  Of course they can find loopholes, especially since I've shown them how you can work around a charm when they've used it on NPCs.  In my last session, the party charmed the officer of a group of guards who were going to search the party.  The officer declared that the party could not be the ones they were looking for, but the sergeant kept telling him that they fit the description personally, and suspected that something was wrong, so he took it upon himself to hold up the party.  The party tried to get the officer angry at his sergeant for not obeying orders, but all that happened was the officer got confused, until one of the PCs said something stupid that turned it into a fight.  The players were upset that they could not avoid the fight, and felt that I nerfed their spell.  My response was that a good sergeant does not blindly follow orders when he suspects something is wrong, and that the spell had its effect since it effectively kept the officer, who was the highest level opponent, out of the fight due to his confusion.</blockquote>