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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moorcrys" data-source="post: 9469714" data-attributes="member: 7814">Love ‘em.The Essentials illusionist in 4e was actually a blast to play. [emoji41]There were a lot of illusion ignoring creatures in 1e - especially at higher levels. Then with UA the barbarian and cavalier classes could basically ignore illusionists because of class abilities. It was always good to have other spells prepared that weren’t illusions - like summon shadows and chaos.From Gary’s writing it seems like he was generous with illusions with those creatures it worked on. They were deadly unless you were trying to do outrageous unbelievable things. Unlike post 1e, they seemed to take on more reality if believed.Also in 1e the illusionist was a theme, not strictly a caster of only illusions- they conjured animals, summoned shadows, confused without saving throws, had a bunch fog spells (solid fog, death fog etc) and got 1st level magic user spells at high levels etc. They were tricksters and their bag of tricks went beyond figments.They were my favorite class but no doubt they required communication with the DM as to what the expectations were and how far you could go with them.</blockquote>