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<blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 7547935" data-attributes="member: 67296"><p>This attempts to explain the “because magic” part but does not really add much to “illusions can block and reflect light” theory.</p><p></p><p>However, the coloured gases theory doesn’t really explain why suddenly the gases stop being opaque as soon as someone succeed on a INT check or save, but only for that person. Does light partially goes through or not? Is so, why did people ignored this transparency before? If not, why did it become translucent for only a few people? Is there a mental component as well?</p><p></p><p>In the case where a source of light is blocked to make a room pitch black, does light go through it all this time but people become blind “in their head”? If light never passes through, what happens if one person succeed on the save but not the other? If the illusion becomes translucent, does the source behind now only emit dim light? Is the radius affected?</p><p></p><p>So the coloured gases solution does not work scientifically either, either because we need to ignore the laws of optics, or because it circumvent them completely by asking the mind to make it real. But I still have issues with illusions making people go blind “in their mind” because it goes well beyond the intended area of effect of the illusion. A minor illusion (making a 5’x5’ AoE) has the potential of affecting a full 40-foot radius.</p><p></p><p>Illusions are already hard enough to manage. IMO, there is no need to complicate them further.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Laurefindel, post: 7547935, member: 67296"] This attempts to explain the “because magic” part but does not really add much to “illusions can block and reflect light” theory. However, the coloured gases theory doesn’t really explain why suddenly the gases stop being opaque as soon as someone succeed on a INT check or save, but only for that person. Does light partially goes through or not? Is so, why did people ignored this transparency before? If not, why did it become translucent for only a few people? Is there a mental component as well? In the case where a source of light is blocked to make a room pitch black, does light go through it all this time but people become blind “in their head”? If light never passes through, what happens if one person succeed on the save but not the other? If the illusion becomes translucent, does the source behind now only emit dim light? Is the radius affected? So the coloured gases solution does not work scientifically either, either because we need to ignore the laws of optics, or because it circumvent them completely by asking the mind to make it real. But I still have issues with illusions making people go blind “in their mind” because it goes well beyond the intended area of effect of the illusion. A minor illusion (making a 5’x5’ AoE) has the potential of affecting a full 40-foot radius. Illusions are already hard enough to manage. IMO, there is no need to complicate them further. [/QUOTE]
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