Do both parts of the spell fall under the category of Charmed as stated in the Damage/Effect? Seeing as you are using a spell to affect someone’s Mind/Emotional State? Or is it a completely different effect called Indifference. Like how does it work when casting it on Elves or the like who have advantage against that.
I mean seeing as it’s a spell that affects the mind like that. How else would it work? I mean it’s not Appling the charmed condition. And you can’t control the affected person but what else but a charm would affect the mind in such a way.
This strange question came up in one of my recent games and nearly broke apart the player and DM. So I kind of got curious on the general opinion of how to interpret the spell.
Because for some reason, for a spell supposed to calm emotions the conversation got really heated because it’s so hard to understand how the spell effects classify correctly.
Neither part of the spell effect inflicts the Charmed condition. The first part can remove charmed or frightened. The second part is just as described, it is not a named condition.
By rules alone, it has no interaction with the Fey Ancestry trait of elves. That trait says "You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep." Since Calm Emotions is not applying the charmed condition and not putting anyone to sleep, Fey Ancestry has no interaction with it.
A DM could of course choose to interpret/houserule Calm Emotions as being "close enough" to a charmed condition, even though it technically isn't.
The damage/effect tag is something DNDBeyond adds to the spell to help players tag/sort/search them, and this isn't the first time that that tag generates some confusion, I think it doesn't have a mechanical effect. Pretty sure it's not there in the physical PHB though I'm not getting it out now to check, hopefully someone less lazy can correct me if i'm wrong :)
Do both parts of the spell fall under the category of Charmed as stated in the Damage/Effect? Seeing as you are using a spell to affect someone’s Mind/Emotional State? Or is it a completely different effect called Indifference. Like how does it work when casting it on Elves or the like who have advantage against that.
I mean seeing as it’s a spell that affects the mind like that. How else would it work? I mean it’s not Appling the charmed condition. And you can’t control the affected person but what else but a charm would affect the mind in such a way.
This strange question came up in one of my recent games and nearly broke apart the player and DM. So I kind of got curious on the general opinion of how to interpret the spell.
Because for some reason, for a spell supposed to calm emotions the conversation got really heated because it’s so hard to understand how the spell effects classify correctly.
What spell are you asking about? Calm Emotions?
Neither part of the spell effect inflicts the Charmed condition. The first part can remove charmed or frightened. The second part is just as described, it is not a named condition.
By rules alone, it has no interaction with the Fey Ancestry trait of elves. That trait says "You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep." Since Calm Emotions is not applying the charmed condition and not putting anyone to sleep, Fey Ancestry has no interaction with it.
A DM could of course choose to interpret/houserule Calm Emotions as being "close enough" to a charmed condition, even though it technically isn't.
The damage/effect tag is something DNDBeyond adds to the spell to help players tag/sort/search them, and this isn't the first time that that tag generates some confusion, I think it doesn't have a mechanical effect. Pretty sure it's not there in the physical PHB though I'm not getting it out now to check, hopefully someone less lazy can correct me if i'm wrong :)