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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8825351" data-attributes="member: 10531">Sure looks like a 9th-level version of project image to me.(5th edition project image, 7th level, does everything described except serve as a conduit for spells. 3rd edition project image, 6th level, can serve as an origin for spells, but the range was much shorter and the caster had to maintain line of effect to the image. Adding the 3e spell conduit to the 5e spell is powerful, but not such that it's clearly beyond other 9th-level spells.)&quot;It's a unique spell the BBEG invented.&quot;&quot;Can you cast 9th level spells? Cool, now you have to acquire or invent it normally.&quot;I, personally, decidedly do not like it when NPCs of (theoretically) the same nature at the PCs have powers PCs cannot get. So if my BBEG is a human wizard, everything she does is something a PC human wizard could, at least in principle, duplicate. (&quot;Sure, that power comes from cutting off your hand and replacing it with the Hand of Vecna. Feel free to do that.&quot;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 8825351, member: 10531"] Sure looks like a 9th-level version of [I]project image[/I] to me. (5th edition [I]project image[/I], 7th level, does everything described except serve as a conduit for spells. 3rd edition [I]project image[/I], 6th level, can serve as an origin for spells, but the range was much shorter and the caster had to maintain line of effect to the image. Adding the 3e spell conduit to the 5e spell is powerful, but not such that it's clearly beyond other 9th-level spells.) "It's a unique spell the BBEG invented." "Can you cast 9th level spells? Cool, now you have to acquire or invent it normally." I, personally, decidedly do not like it when NPCs of (theoretically) the same nature at the PCs have powers PCs cannot get. So if my BBEG is a human wizard, everything she does is something a PC human wizard could, at least in principle, duplicate. ("Sure, [I]that[/I] power comes from cutting off your hand and replacing it with the Hand of Vecna. Feel free to do that.") [/QUOTE]

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