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The best use of charm person isn’t to make people like you. It is to make people hate your enemies. Step 1: Disguise Self as your nemesis. Step 2: Charm Person on the local police chief. Step 3: Now the police think your enemy is an evil mind controlling fiend.
Turning an enemy into a combat ally is a very powerful effect in DnD due to how the action economy works. Charm person is a very bad combat spell, but it's meant to be. Its usefulness is enhanced depending on how encounters are designed. If every combat is just "two sides attack until one runs out of HP," then it's not likely to come up.
Charm Person is both a spell without a perceptible effect and one that “says otherwise” - specifically that a creature that failed the saving throw knows at the end. It follows that a creature that did save doesn’t know it was the target.
The only thing Charm Person does in 5e is apply the charmed condition, which has very short and specific set of written rules, with caveats that can instantly remove the condition. Charmed A charmed creature can’t attack the charmer or target the charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects.
But Charm Person is good enough to get that guide deep into the tomb with you, so that’s what you cast. Not only stopping an ongoing attack but also turn an enemy into a temporary ally. Get info, stuff, help ambush his real friends (your enemies), etc.
That spell is "Charm Person". It is a spell that is usable by bard, Druid (what?), sorcerer, wizard, and warlock. When you cast this spell, your target makes a Wisdom saving throw. If they fail, they are charmed by you and regard you as a friendly acquaintance.
The spell would persist while the caster’s concentration lasts, up to 1 minute. After that, the vampire’s charm, which lasts 24 hours, would still be in effect. If the caster ordered the charmed PC to attack the vampire, then that would be a Contest as described above. Differing Charm Effects. Here are a few charm effects for reference.
Apart from the charmer damaging the charmee, you could: damage the caster to break their concentration, if concentration on the effect is required, cast lesser restoration ( greater restoration, thank you, u/witchlamb ), dispel magic, etc., or. use a class feature like a paladin's cleansing touch (I think that's what it is) to remove the effect.
4. In our games we had charm person positively influence the targets attitude toward the caster based on a general scale of hostile > indifferent > friendly > loyal. The targets attitude would only move one better on the scale. So an enemy caster at best could make the target indifferent to the caster.
Play the charmed PC yourself: This is the worst case scenario of the two options. You are effectively making the PC an NPC (or GMPC) for the time being and isolating your charmed player from play. This is no fun for them and has the potential to be a negative gaming experience for your group. This does imply a lack of trust with your players ...