I have some interrogation on spell with Willing Target. You cast a spell, and your target your ally, it’s easy to know if your ally is willing or not.
But when the target is ennemis to the caster, how you can tell if the enemy is willing or not. I start to think, if the enemy do know the spell that is cast (exemple with Recognize Spell feat), it will be always be unwilling.
My question have started by reading the Healing spell. From now, in ours games, the caster have to position himself to target only his ally, because it automatically heal the enemy also. But if the enemy have to be willing, if the enemy does not know the spell that it’s is cast, why it will be willing to take the effect of the healing. Maybe, the second time the spell is cast, the ennemis may be willing, after seeing the other being healed.
Then, does my last vision of the willing target is ok?
What interrogation spell are you referencing?
As for Heal - the base rule text of Heal (before the changes listed for each of the action cost versions) is that the spell heals 1d8 Hit Points and targets one willing creature.
If you are going to accept that the two action version of the spell overrides the base version to increase the healing amount by 8 points, then you also have to accept that the three action version of the spell overrides the base version to change the targeting to be all creatures in the area regardless of whether they are willing or not.
The way I have understood, it was specified all living and undead, only to be sure that’s you cannot target only living or undead. It was not removing the willingness of the target. But maybe my understanding of the last version is wrong.
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What interrogation spell are you referencing?
'Interrogation' is probably a poor translation of 'question' (you can interrogate or question a suspect in a crime, but hopefully a forum post is not the right place for an interrogation): The OP is probably not a native English speaker.
You are correct, not a native English. Normally, it’s would be better to say: I have some question.
What interrogation spell are you referencing?'Interrogation' is probably a poor translation of 'question' (you can interrogate or question a suspect in a crime, but hopefully a forum post is not the right place for an interrogation): The OP is probably not a native English speaker.
Ah. I was hoping that there is some interrogation spell similar to Geas - where the target has to be willing, so you have to trick or coerce the target into accepting the spell.
And yes, there are other ruling possibilities for the three action Heal spell, but having it affect all creatures without regard to their willingness is what I have seen most commonly. That is also how I read it from natural language. Other rulings seem to require debate and pointing to various particulars and details of the specific wording. Such as pointing out that the override text does not explicitly mention removing the word 'willing' from the target line - though it also doesn't mention keeping any part of the original targeting line either.