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Is there any particular trick to this? I'm trying to make a spell that Holds undead up to 5 levels below the caster, and Controls them if they are 6 or more levels below the caster:

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But when this caster goes to High Hedge at 10th level, the skeletons are only being Held, not Controlled. I'm pretty sure they are not 5+ hit dice... so, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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Hmm... of course I tried to simplify things for purposes of posting, and it may have muddied the issue. I would actually like to have three effects:

- Slow at some range (y < level)

- Hold at some range (x < level < y)

- Control at some range (level < x)

 

The Control effect is never kicking in. So it seems like maybe you can only use max level or min level? But not both?

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Hmm... of course I tried to simplify things for purposes of posting, and it may have muddied the issue. I would actually like to have three effects:

- Slow at some range (y < level)

- Hold at some range (x < level < y)

- Control at some range (level < x)

 

The Control effect is never kicking in. So it seems like maybe you can only use max level or min level? But not both?

 

Then why hold works? You use both there.

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Hmm... of course I tried to simplify things for purposes of posting, and it may have muddied the issue. I would actually like to have three effects:

- Slow at some range (y < level)

- Hold at some range (x < level < y)

- Control at some range (level < x)

 

The Control effect is never kicking in. So it seems like maybe you can only use max level or min level? But not both?

Then why hold works? You use both there.

The question is, why is the hold working at all? Skeletons are < x, so it shouldn't apply at all. But it does

 

My hypothesis is, once the spell evaluates (level < y), which is true of skeletons, then it doesn't evaluate the other condition, or the later Control effect. But this is my first time messing around with these fields, so I thought I would reach out and see if anyone else had more experience with it.

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