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<blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 4131377" data-attributes="member: 29663">I don't think this is a strawman...Two Scenarios to simplify your point:1. A hallway with a spike pit, you use mirage arcana to make it appear as normal floor, target would walk over the pit and fall thru/in.2. A normal hallway is made to appear to have a spike pit trap using mirage arcana...does the target fall in/get impaled?Right now I'm hung up on the description from glamer &quot;They cannot cause damage to objects or creatures....&quot;&nbsp; This would seem to say scenaio 1 is the intended use, where scenario 2 is right out.&nbsp; Extrapolating from that, the water is an existing hazard that is masked by the illusion, rather than a hazard created by the illusion, and the OP's strategy would be spot on due to the spell's description and inferred intent (mask hazards = mislead targets).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="werk, post: 4131377, member: 29663"] [b]I don't think this is a strawman...[/b] Two Scenarios to simplify your point: 1. A hallway with a spike pit, you use mirage arcana to make it appear as normal floor, target would walk over the pit and fall thru/in. 2. A normal hallway is made to appear to have a spike pit trap using mirage arcana...does the target fall in/get impaled? Right now I'm hung up on the description from glamer "They cannot cause damage to objects or creatures...." This would seem to say scenaio 1 is the intended use, where scenario 2 is right out. Extrapolating from that, the water is an existing hazard that is masked by the illusion, rather than a hazard created by the illusion, and the OP's strategy would be spot on due to the spell's description and inferred intent (mask hazards = mislead targets). [/QUOTE]

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