You give a verbal command to a creature that you can see within range, ordering it to carry out some service or refrain from an action or a course of activity as you decide. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The target automatically succeeds if it can’t understand your command.
While Charmed, the creature takes 5d10 Psychic damage if it acts in a manner directly counter to your command. It takes this damage no more than once each day.
You can issue any command you choose, short of an activity that would result in certain death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the spell ends.
A Remove Curse,Greater Restoration, or Wish spell ends this spell.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. If you use a level 7 or 8 spell slot, the duration is 365 days. If you use a level 9 spell slot, the spell lasts until it is ended by one of the spells mentioned above.
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Posted Sep 22, 2024Is commanding a creature to commit a specific crime that is generally punishable by death (such as high treason, regicide or the like) considered as a suicidal command?
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Posted Sep 25, 2024Only of they're caught
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Posted Sep 30, 2024A good candidate for the Divine Intervention feature.
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Posted Nov 7, 2024"You can issue any command you choose, short of an activity that would result in certain death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the spell ends."
Darn. There goes my idea to issue a geas: "do not obey this geas."
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Posted Nov 20, 2024> cast geas on dragon
> "give all of your belongings to charitable causes"
yee yee ass dragon: >:c
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Posted Jan 21, 2025missing a space between "Remove Curse," and "Greater Restoration" btw
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Posted Feb 16, 2025We just used this spell in a campaign to compel a knight to step down from a leadership role,
and not interfere in the law of our barony.
It seems like possible developments for this are:
All in all, it's a really fun spell for creating tensions in multiple outcomes,
ideas about authority and justice,
etc.
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Posted Mar 9, 20255d10 is an average of only 27.5, I think the dragon would just tank the damage.
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Posted Mar 21, 2025that's how you get a dragon nemesis
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Posted Jun 3, 2025As long as the knight has at least 51 HP he'll be able to just deal with the damage and ignore you and long rest to recover HP. He'll have to make sure to go to bed on time and deal with a bunch of pain every day for a month but it's likely he'll survive.
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Posted Jun 11, 2025No, because the exact wording is
You can issue any command you choose, short of an activity that would result in certain death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the spell ends.
You could because it's not certain death