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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cmbarona" data-source="post: 4510391" data-attributes="member: 71281">Come to think of it, I was having the hardest time accepting the Illusionist Wizard's spells until this thread. If you consider hps more abstractly, the fact that Illusionists do psychic damage makes perfect sense. The target isn't taking physical wounds; why should there be any hp deduction until and unless they are literally scared to death? Well, the point is that one of two things happen to victims of illusion spells: 1) they believe so fervently that they are damaged that their bodies reflect this (the fear approach I just mentioned) or 2) their morale is affected by the illusions. It's a subtle difference, but I think an important one. Illusions can affect not just physical condition, but are actually designed to affect morale. People see horriffic or confounding phantasms and begin to lose their very will to fight. Eventually, a person can succumb to the change in morale and allow themselves to be overtaken, defeated. In such a case, why shouldn't a Warlord be able to snap them out of their illusion-induced stupor? Keep in mind, I'm not arguing that all wounds are like this, but rather that this presents a compelling case that hps are far more abstract than past editions (and certainly video games) have led us to believe over the years.</blockquote>