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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8441942" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>The problem with the discussion on light is the illusion has to alter light in its area of effect. Light is what your eyes sense so saying it can't create light means in effect it can't create an image. With this in mind I think the correct interpretation is the illusion alters the perception of light and it acts on the individuals mind to do this, not their eyes</p><p></p><p>The way I rule this for minor illusion and silent image is they cause or modify the perception of light specifically related to the illusion itself in their own area of effect. </p><p></p><p>For example you make an illusion of a 5 foot black box around a torch on the wall, then the box itself covers the wall, if you specify it is a completely dark and opaque 5 foot box then that 5 foot area is dark and looks like a black inky 5 foot cube. The area right outside the box is still in bright light from the torch, although anyone looking at it would not understand where the light is coming from. If you touch the box it turns "dim" and you see through it to the torch underneath and can see anything else in that 5 foot area as if it is in bright light.</p><p></p><p>Another example - If you are in completely dark area and create an image of a lit torch, everyone sees the torch, but the torch casts no light at all. Even if you create it right on top of a creature and know it is an illusion, you still can't see any part of that creature without darkvision or some comparable ability. In this respect it does not cast "light" even in the space it occupies but you would still "see" the torch itself. If you instead made a 5' bright sphere (i.e. a miniature sun), again everyone would see the sun but it would cast no light outside its space and anyone who recognized it for an illusion could "see" through it but would not see anything inside it without darkvision because there is no light there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8441942, member: 7030563"] The problem with the discussion on light is the illusion has to alter light in its area of effect. Light is what your eyes sense so saying it can't create light means in effect it can't create an image. With this in mind I think the correct interpretation is the illusion alters the perception of light and it acts on the individuals mind to do this, not their eyes The way I rule this for minor illusion and silent image is they cause or modify the perception of light specifically related to the illusion itself in their own area of effect. For example you make an illusion of a 5 foot black box around a torch on the wall, then the box itself covers the wall, if you specify it is a completely dark and opaque 5 foot box then that 5 foot area is dark and looks like a black inky 5 foot cube. The area right outside the box is still in bright light from the torch, although anyone looking at it would not understand where the light is coming from. If you touch the box it turns "dim" and you see through it to the torch underneath and can see anything else in that 5 foot area as if it is in bright light. Another example - If you are in completely dark area and create an image of a lit torch, everyone sees the torch, but the torch casts no light at all. Even if you create it right on top of a creature and know it is an illusion, you still can't see any part of that creature without darkvision or some comparable ability. In this respect it does not cast "light" even in the space it occupies but you would still "see" the torch itself. If you instead made a 5' bright sphere (i.e. a miniature sun), again everyone would see the sun but it would cast no light outside its space and anyone who recognized it for an illusion could "see" through it but would not see anything inside it without darkvision because there is no light there. [/QUOTE]
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