Can Mirror Images Flank?

[Jabba Von Hutt]

If a wizard with mirror images gets stuck in hand to hand. Would his images grant him a flanking bonus?

 

[0-hr]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Yes, if you can fast talk your DM or whine enough.

 

[Kershek]

No, because if you look at it logically, all the images are in the same 5' square that your wizard is in.

 

[kreynolds]

Long answer: Yes, if you can fast talk your DM or whine enough.

You mean if you have these feats?

Schmuck [General]
You are a pitiful gamer.
Benefit: You wine, complain, gripe, and throw temper tantrums more than most human beings.
Normal: Without this feat, a character might actually be called “human”, as they are somewhat tolerable.
Special: This feat doesn’t do anything on it’s own, but it is necessary to access many other feats for ruthless gamers.

Shameless [General]
You have no self respect.
Benefit: By having all sense of shame removed from your psyche, there is little that you won’t do to get what you want.
Normal: Most DM’s wouldn’t give you the time of day, no matter what you offer, even if you offered a crap-load of money, you’re that pitiful.
Special: This feat doesn’t actually grant anything, though it does keep you from killing yourself due to shame because of your actions.

Get Whatever You Want [General]
You can get whatever you want from your DM with little fuss.
Prerequisites: Cha 8+, Schmuck, Shameless.
Benefit: You are a shameless schmuck. You know this. Everyone knows this. You don’t care. By sleeping with the DM, you can get just about anything you want, such as a Wish spell granting you a +1 increase to your base attack bonus or another feat. Whenever you use this feat, you must make a Charisma check. The check is set by your DM.
Normal: Without this feat, you just wine, complain, gripe, and throw temper tantrums a lot and are simply begging to be buried alive.
Special: My god…you suck. A character with the Shameless feat gains a +2 competence bonus to all Get Whatever You Want checks.

Whatd'ya' think? Worthy of an offcial product? Perhaps The Quintessential Nightmare Gamer?

 

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Whatd'ya' think? Worthy of an offcial product? Perhaps The Quintessential Nightmare Gamer?

At least you should put them onto a webpage if you haven't already! The collection is growing every day, it seems.

 

[0-hr]

Anyway Jabba, sorry that the thread got a bit diverted there. Your images all do exactly what you do (like an image in a mirror stragely enough). Only one of them (the real one) would even really be facing the opponent correctly, so you're lucky that the DM doesn't make it easy to pick out the real wizard whenever he makes a melee attack

Though the spell description only says that the images have to be within 5ft of one another, the caster doesn't have any control over where they are exactly. So you can't tell them to spread out and flank or anything like that. Honestly, you'll find adjucating the spell a lot easier if you make all of the images stay within the same square as the caster.

 

[Jabba Von Hutt]

Are you sure?

Thanks Ki Ryn, but playing devil's advocate here. The description also says that the caster can walk through images merge and then split images to keep opponents confused. So the caster does have at least limited control of the images. From what I read in the PHB it looks like the caster can place the images where he/she wants as long as they are within 5' of the caster or another image. So if a caster can place them where he/she wants why not change the facing? I wouldn't see this too much as a unbalancing issue.

Thanks for all the muchkinesque replies, but none of them really answered the question.

 

[Artoomis]

No.

 

[Jabba Von Hutt]

Let's try a ...

BUMP

 

[Artoomis]

The mirror images don't DO anything, thus they can't flank. They ONLY make you hard to target.

That's it.

There's no more to it.

Really.

No Flanking.

Period.