Illusionary Cone of Cold

[Khelvan]

Perhaps someone here can help me where to find the rules about this.
I know they exist but dont know where to find them.

If a mage casts an illusionary cone of Cold and the target fails its saving roll.
What happens with the damage if it 4 rounds later learns that the
cone was an illusion?
Does the damage stay?


Thanks

Khelvan

 

[Dross]

I don't have a rules quote, but my thought is that the wounds stay as they are instantaneous effects, but any ongoing effects like bleeding would stop.

which might beg the Q: Illusionary Curing?

 

[Thurbane]

I'm pretty sure in the current rules, illusions can't cause damage, real or imagined. You might need something like Shadow Evocation. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[Someone]

Figments (like using Silent or Major image to form the illusion of a Cone of cold spell) don't ever cause damage; the target would recognize the spell as an illusion immediately most of the time because he's not frozen, which would count as "incontrovertible proof" that the illusion isn't real.

Evocation spells mimicked through Shadow evocation or similar do what the description does. If the victim fails the saving throw it suffers the damage the spell says it suffers, and it stays regardless of if he later discovers it wasn't a real evocation.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

What they said. This was all part of a big reworking of the illusion rules that happened between 2nd and 3rd edition.

Ken

 

[phindar]

It would be kind of funny if an illusionist kept firing fake Cone of Cold spells at a rogue who thought the reason he wasn't taking damage was his Evasion. No real game effect to it, but it'd be funny. To me.

 

[lukelightning]

The rules are quite clear on this; check http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#illusion

If you want to use illusions to blast people, use shadow evocation, etc.

 

[backbeat]

It would be kind of funny if an illusionist kept firing fake Cone of Cold spells at a rogue who thought the reason he wasn't taking damage was his Evasion.

It would be funnier if the rogue was a changeling disguised as a fighter.

 

[Mistwell]

What would be REALLY funny to me is a Gnome Illusionist Shadow Mage with all the appropriate feats to make their shadow evocations MORE real than the spell they are replicating against a target that MAKES it's save. The Killer Gnome combo at the WOTC Optimization boards get's up to 120%+ real shadow spells I believe