Dominate Person

Dominate Person — 5.5e / 2024

One Humanoid you can see within range makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it has the Charmed condition for the duration. It has Advantage on the save if you or your allies are fighting it.

Whenever the target takes damage, it repeats the Wisdom save, ending the spell on itself on a success.

While you and the target are on the same plane, you have a telepathic link. On your turn you can issue commands through that link without taking an action. The target does its best to obey on its turn.

You can command the target to take a Reaction, but doing so costs your own Reaction.

Higher-level slots: 6th level can extend Concentration to 10 minutes, 7th to 1 hour, and 8th or higher to 8 hours.

Dominate Person — 5e / 2014

A Humanoid you can see makes a Wisdom saving throw, with Advantage if you or friendly creatures are fighting it. On a failure, it is Charmed for the duration.

You can issue simple commands telepathically with no action required. When an order is complete and no new order follows, the target acts to protect itself.

2014 total control: you can use your Action to take total and precise control until the end of your next turn. During that time the creature takes only the actions you choose. Causing it to use a Reaction still costs your Reaction.

Damage triggers a new Wisdom saving throw to end the spell.

Higher-level slot durations are the same 10 minutes / 1 hour / 8 hours progression as the 2024 spell.

Dominate Person — Pathfinder 1e

A telepathic link lets you direct the subject. Shared language permits detailed orders; without one, communication is limited to basic commands.

Changing orders is a move action. Spending a standard action in full concentration gives you the subject’s interpreted sensory input.

Actions against the subject’s nature grant a new save with a +2 bonus. Obviously self-destructive orders are not followed.

Control works at unlimited distance on the same plane. If you fail to spend at least 1 round concentrating on the spell during a day, the subject receives a new save to break free.

Dominate Person — D&D 3.5e

The 3.5e spell uses the same core domination model as PF1e: detailed commands with shared language, move-action redirection, full-concentration sensory impressions, new saves for actions against the target’s nature, and same-plane unlimited control range.

Obviously self-destructive orders are not obeyed, and the target can gain a new daily save if the caster neglects the required daily concentration.