This rebalance for Calm Emotions is excellent! Finally I can cast this on allies to cleanse them of mental effects without making them indifferent to who we are fighting. I just wish it had the stipulation that you can choose to fail the saving throw.

I’m pretty sure you can just generally chose to fail saves I don’t think the spell has to specifically say it. I’m not certain though. 

Great re-work for 2024. My only gripe is no upcasting which makes it sad for Warlocks. Would be great if it increased the radius by 5ft per spell level upcast. 

I don't understand why they insisted that this spell work only on Humanoids, at least according to the first sentence only.  If there was a Druid/nature spell equivalent, I would understand...  Why not have it work on animals or intelligent creatures, though maybe not on Aberrations, Celestials/Demons/Devils, Undead, etc.?

At least the spell specifies it is technically a Charm, so there is that precision. 

nb: there was a spell called Calm Animals in 2e, 3e, and there is a Calm Beasts spell in Tome of Heroes (2022, by Kobold Press).

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This rebalance for Calm Emotions is excellent! Finally I can cast this on allies to cleanse them of mental effects without making them indifferent to who we are fighting. I just wish it had the stipulation that you can choose to fail the saving throw.

 There is a general rule that you can always choose to fail a saving throw.

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This rebalance for Calm Emotions is excellent! Finally I can cast this on allies to cleanse them of mental effects without making them indifferent to who we are fighting. I just wish it had the stipulation that you can choose to fail the saving throw.

 Small nitpick: technically, this spell does not remove conditions-it suppresses them for the spell's duration (1 minute). If the condition suppressed by this spell lasts longer than a minute, it returns after that duration expires.

While being suppressed, can allies still roll saving throws at the end of their turn to get rid of frightened/charmed (if stated in the charm/frightened spell)? Is there a rule for it or is it up to the DM?

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While being suppressed, can allies still roll saving throws at the end of their turn to get rid of frightened/charmed (if stated in the charm/frightened spell)? Is there a rule for it or is it up to the DM?

 I would say that, while under the effects of the calm emotions spell, whatever effect a creature is under is effectively not present. One would only save against an effect that is acting on them-meaning that saves to resist are not made while calm emotions is active on the creature. This is just based on my opinion as a DM as I have not been able to find an official ruling on the subject.

I hate that this only works on humanoids.  Calming a bunch of beasts down seems like what this spell was made for, too. :.(

My players were chasing down a unicorn and I realized that the celestial from the Fay Wilds has a spell that can’t target other celestials or fay. For that reason, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for DMs or players to change the spell to target ALL humanoid creatures. Arguably, I think it should target all creatures in general, but that’s probably busted for a 2nd level spell.