When does dominate person end?

[welby]

A vampire casts dominate person on our fighter. 2 rounds later the vampire takes enough damage to turn gaseous and go to his coffin. What happens with the fighter? What about after the party stakes the vampire?

If the spell is still in effect after either of the above scenarios, if the vampire's final command was "defend me" would the fighter continue fighting his allies? What you would have the fighter do in this situation?

 

[mikebr99]

A vampire casts dominate person on our fighter. 2 rounds later the vampire takes enough damage to turn gaseous and go to his coffin. What happens with the fighter? What about after the party stakes the vampire?

If the spell is still in effect after either of the above scenarios, if the vampire's final command was "defend me" would the fighter continue fighting his allies? What you would have the fighter do in this situation?

I'm assuming you meant the Dominate ability, which acts as the dominate person spell (caster level 12th)? The target would be dominated for 12 days. He will try to defend the vampire for the full 12 days.

Mike

 

[Bad Paper]

Agree with Mike, and then the spell is broken when the vamp is dead. Though, for delicious flavor, I would then have the fighter resist desecrating the vampire's corpse, out of respect, you know....

 

[Corsair]

Except in this case, the vampire isn't dead. So if the party continued to attempt to pursue the now-gaseous vampire, the fighter should still try to stop them.

 

[frankthedm]

The effect will last for one day after the vampire is destroyed, obeying the last command given.

 

[blargney the second]

Domination ends when she says it does. *gulp*

 

[welby]

The effect will last for one day after the vampire is destroyed, obeying the last command given.

Source? This actually sounds right for some unfamiliar reason.


And yes I did mean the dominate ability.

The reason this came up is I was playing our NPC fighter who got dominated. The party "won" the encounter because the vampire went gaseous. I playfully argued that I should continue killing the very wounded party. It would have been a TPK except my character who was safely away on a side quest (thus why I was playing the npc).

 

[frankthedm]

Dominate has a stipulation the caster must take some effort each day to prevent control from ending. That is the only way the effect ends before the 1 day per level time is up.

Once you have given a dominated creature a command, it continues to attempt to carry out that command to the exclusion of all other activities except those necessary for day-to-day survival (such as sleeping, eating, and so forth).

If you don’t spend at least 1 round concentrating on the spell each day, the subject receives a new saving throw to throw off the domination.

 

[RigaMortus2]

So it's not definate. After the 1 day they get a saving throw (since the vampire is dead and cannot concentrate for 1 round), but should they fail the save they are still dominated, right?

Of course, if the vampire is not dead, but in gaseous form, I would say they could concentrate on them for 1 round each day at least.