Perfume in the 2024 player’s handbook vs. Charm Person (Below is simply a rant on my hatred of the spell, Charm Person) /u/Few_Dark7003 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

I just wanted to state somewhere how awful I find the Charm person spell to be. It’s actively punishing to use when a decent personality and a spritz of perfume will get you just as far, consequence free in most cases.

[Perfume] Perfume comes in a 4-ounce vial. For 1 hour after applying Perfume to yourself, you have Advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made to influence an Indifferent Humanoid within 5 feet of yourself.

[Charm Person] One Humanoid you can see within range makes a Wisdom saving throw. It does so with Advantage if you or your allies are fighting it. On a failed save, the target has the Charmed condition until the spell ends or until you or your allies damage it. The Charmed creature is Friendly to you. When the spell ends, the target knows it was Charmed by you.

Friendly gives you advantage on a check to influence a creature. It’s a half of what the charmed condition does to begin with.

Friendly people are already friendly toward you so they aren’t relevant with either thing. While perfume doesn’t work on hostiles, spell casting is obvious and unlike perfume, charm person only works on one person at a time. It does prevent the caster from being targeted. Just the caster. But those it is casted on get disadvantage if in combat with the caster.

Charm Person is a waste of a spell and actively punishing to waste one of your precious spell slots, or prepared spells on.

What brought this rant on is that when making a warlock, the book suggests the spells hex and charm person as your first level spells. Who would ever suggest such a thing?

I just wanted to state somewhere how awful I find the Charm person spell to be. It’s actively punishing to use when a decent personality and a spritz of perfume will get you just as far, consequence free in most cases.

[Perfume] Perfume comes in a 4-ounce vial. For 1 hour after applying Perfume to yourself, you have Advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made to influence an Indifferent Humanoid within 5 feet of yourself.

[Charm Person] One Humanoid you can see within range makes a Wisdom saving throw. It does so with Advantage if you or your allies are fighting it. On a failed save, the target has the Charmed condition until the spell ends or until you or your allies damage it. The Charmed creature is Friendly to you. When the spell ends, the target knows it was Charmed by you.

Friendly gives you advantage on a check to influence a creature. It’s a half of what the charmed condition does to begin with.

Friendly people are already friendly toward you so they aren’t relevant with either thing. While perfume doesn’t work on hostiles, spell casting is obvious and unlike perfume, charm person only works on one person at a time. It does prevent the caster from being targeted. Just the caster. But those it is casted on get disadvantage if in combat with the caster.

Charm Person is a waste of a spell and actively punishing to waste one of your precious spell slots, or prepared spells on.

What brought this rant on is that when making a warlock, the book suggests the spells hex and charm person as your first level spells. Who would ever suggest such a thing?