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From: cdrigney@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Insubstantial Illusions
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 09:10:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 09:10:00 1985
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Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!cdrigney    Nov 26 08:10:00 1985


<You don't have to be evil to read this, but it doesn't get in the way.>

With all this discussion of how to handle illusion spells, I'd
like to throw my two cents in.  Currently, I run illusions as
completely insubstantial; this has the very nice benefit that
illusionists must use their wits to come up with a clever use for
their abilities, instead of the typical "Phantasmal Force
Fireball" that takes no imagination.

If your illusion has visual, audio, and thermal components, you
can cast a fireball that someone will think is sizzling them in
their own juices, but they won't take damage from it.

With a visual illusion, you can make solid floor look like a
chasm, but it still feels like a floor if someone walks on it.
With a tactile illusion, you can make a chasm feel like a solid
floor (and still look like a chasm).

I also don't use saving throws for illusions (although opposing
mages can counter, block, or dispel them if they know how); if
you want to disbelieve the illusion, go right ahead and act
accordingly.  But it takes a lot of guts to walk through a
basilisk...

		--Carl Rigney
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