Dominating a dominated person


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What is the mechanic for dominating a person already dominated? Does the most recent spell control. Should there be an opposed caster level check? Should the recipient of both simple breakdown from total cognitive dissonance. It seems unclear.

It happens we have a great rogue in our party, who's a real risk taker, but he has a zero will save, so I have a feeling he's going to be turned against us a alot. Tonight I turned him into a tortoise, but it would be nice to be able to dominate him back; I just can't quite figure out the dynamic.


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conflicting control spells are resolved by opposed charisma checks.

CRB wrote:
Multiple Mental Control Effects: Sometimes magical effects that establish mental control render each other irrelevant, such as spells that remove the subject's ability to act. Mental controls that don't remove the recipient's ability to act usually do not interfere with each other. If a creature is under the mental control of two or more creatures, it tends to obey each to the best of its ability, and to the extent of the control each effect allows. If the controlled creature receives conflicting orders simultaneously, the competing controllers must make opposed Charisma checks to determine which one the creature obeys.


Interesting, I suppose that makes as much sense as anything else. I suppose I might prefer an alternative of a caster stat check because it really feels like a battle between the caster's magical abilities. But the rules are clear. Thank you for such a quick and concise answer.


Get a Wayfinder and a Clear Spindle Ioun Stone. You hav a 75% chance of Resonant Powers. Under method 1, the Clear Spindle grants Protection from possession and mental control (as protection from evil).
Problem solved.

/cevah

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