can mirror images survive a fireball? (or any Area effect spell, for that matter)

[Negative Zero]

from the spell description:

Any successful attack against an image destroys it.

and ...

Figments seem to react normally to area spells (such as looking like they’re burned or dead after being hit by a fireball).

now, at first glance i'd always assumed that the first line above menat that all the images would disappear if hit by a fireball. however, the second line clearly seems to indicate that the images would survive. that they'd look like whatever the wizard looked like after the fireball, even if he was dead ...

what do you think? are there any rulings on this?

~NegZ

 

[Hypersmurf]

and ... now, at first glance i'd always assumed that the first line above menat that all the images would disappear if hit by a fireball. however, the second line clearly seems to indicate that the images would survive. that they'd look like whatever the wizard looked like after the fireball, even if he was dead ...

Area spells never destroy MI figments. The whole point is that you can't use the area spell to distinguish the caster from his images. So if the fireball turns the caster black and sooty like a Looney Tune, his images all look black and sooty like a Looney Tune.

If you want to destroy a MI figment, use something that hits an individual image.

-Hyp.

 

[Negative Zero]

kool, thanks.
Hyp to the rescue as always

~NegZ