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Dominated: Lesser Unclear with rest #429

Closed BuildAndDie closed 7 years ago

BuildAndDie commented 7 years ago

Right now, the way Lesser domination reads doesn't make sense with the rest of Domination.

It is a Fail x 3 = 1 hour or Resist ends (pretty normal)

But Lesser domination says The target obeys a one word command until the end of their next turn. It doesn't give any information on giving more commands. In Greater it mentions that you have to use a Major action to give a new command.

In Greater it says

The dominated creature will continue to obey the last mental command they were given until you give a new command.

but that seems to be only include with Greater, and not Lesser b/c of the paragraph setup. I would think it works the same way for Lesser, but the reason Lesser was maybe worded that way was b/c of the creature being able to resist at the end of their turn?

Perhaps changing the wording just above both Lesser and Greater to be instead of:

The dominated bane manifests at two levels: lesser and greater.

to be:

The dominated bane manifests at two levels: lesser and greater. In both cases the dominated creature will continue to obey the last mental command they were given until you give a new command or they resist the bane.

Though perhaps some additional wording needed that it takes a Major action to give a new command? Or just modifying the last 2 sentences of the Greater Domination section to be a different paragraph.

Not sure I can give a good suggestion right now, been traveling since 3 am, and it is 10:30 pm right now, but wanted to flag this for @istabosz and @brianfeister , just hope my brain was able to point it out enough right now.