spell turning and dominate / charm spells


Rules Questions


So the great archwizard Joe goes adventuring and before seeing whats behind door #2, he casts Spell Turning. Upon opening the door, the Grand Horrific Monster Bob casts dominate monster.

The spell is successfully turned back on Bob, so Bob is dominated. But who dominates him? Does he dominate himself since he cast the spell, or does Joe dominate him because he turned the spell back? Or did I forget some really useful part of the spell that keeps this from happening?


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Anyone have thoughts on this?


Being the first sentence:" I dominate you!" (or something similar), after a spell turning it would be:" You dominate me!", while *you* is not specified. This makes Bob a very suggestible monster, since he's both the master and both the slave, but commands have to be self centered, so Joe should tell Bob something like:" You command yourself to *whatever dominate monsters allows*.".


I think this depends on if the Dominate spell was cast with an initial command, or if the caster decided to wait to see if the spell worked before issuing a command...

Bob casts Dominate Monster with the command "leave now". Bob must leave now. Whether Bob must leave the room, the building, or the city would probably be up to Bob's initial interpretation (as the caster) of the command, and his understanding (as the subject) of the command. Maybe he simply walks past a very amused Joe, leaves the room, and then turns around and attacks.

If no command was immediately issued upon the casting of Dominate Monster, Bob is effectively the subject and the master, but with no active command, he could probably simply end the effect with no problems (except wasting the spell slot).

Edit: As far as I can tell, nowhere in the spell description does it say that the subject is in an eternal trance. This is only so if the subject is actively accomplishing a redundant task.

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