Proper Reaction to Charm Person.

[hamishspence]

I think you're overstating charm person a touch. It doesn't change your mind or your very essence. It makes you marginally more amiable to the person who cast it. Heck, while it does make it a bit easier to talk you into something you're not that opposed to anyway, it has 0 chance of someone talking you into something you absolutely would not do. Heck, if you hate someone such that they'd have disadvantage in talking you viewing anything they say in a favorable light, charm person would only get you back to an even chance.

Going back to

"what is the proper way for the law to treat the use or attempted use of charm magic"?

And

"what is the normal reaction, in-universe, to a use or attempt"?

I think treating it as murder/rape or attempted murder/rape is a bit much.

I can't see it being treated that way in an average D&D setting.

It would be treated fairly seriously though - just not that seriously.


And IMO, the average judge will not hand down the same sentence as they will for attempted murder.