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<blockquote data-quote="EvanNave55" data-source="post: 6677061" data-attributes="member: 6789374"><p>Because its so aopen for practicaly anything, and also depends on what your dm allows its hard to really answer but I'll atleast give some possibilities and examples of how I have.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't with the most ... <em>functional</em> party so at one point one party member shoved me into a spiked pit, right afterword a medusa was accidtally released so as a sortof payback I cast an illusion over the piti was into make it looklike I wasn't in there so the medusa wouldnt go after me and left them to fight it on their own. </p><p></p><p>Another time aparty member (same one that through me in the pit later) was causing some trouble ina merchants shop almost torturing the guy- I don't even remember why- so I asked the dm if I could make the illusions one way anad he said yes (many dms probably wouldn't allow that though) so I cast an illusion on the windows so that looking in the shop it doesn't look like anythings going on, and looking out you still see the normal street. I did this to stop city guards or whoever from seeing what was happening and attacking us, and one way because my party didn't know who I was or that I could do magic and I wanted to keep it that way.</p><p></p><p>Some other things you could do is make illusions of pits or other obstructions/obstacles as a sort of battle field control since they would try to avoid it, or alternativly make pits look like normal ground so they woukd fall in. You could also combine it with the silent image and minor image to make an illusion that makes sound as well like a higher level illusion. You can use illusions to make a person walking by or sometghing to distract guards/monsters if you're sneaking around. If you needed to hide you could possibly even hide in a corner or something when you were being chased then cast an illusion that makes it lokk like the wall is a little farther forward thus hiding you.</p><p></p><p>And since in this edition you don't even get to make checks to disbelieve illusions till you touch them they wouldn't ever get saves to disbelieve these since they wouldn't be touching what they thought was there any way. Frequently the best illusions are simply changing the invirement in some way to make enemies act like you want and do it in a way that they probaly won't touch whatever the illusion is so they can't disbelieve it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EvanNave55, post: 6677061, member: 6789374"] Because its so aopen for practicaly anything, and also depends on what your dm allows its hard to really answer but I'll atleast give some possibilities and examples of how I have. I wasn't with the most ... [I]functional[/I] party so at one point one party member shoved me into a spiked pit, right afterword a medusa was accidtally released so as a sortof payback I cast an illusion over the piti was into make it looklike I wasn't in there so the medusa wouldnt go after me and left them to fight it on their own. Another time aparty member (same one that through me in the pit later) was causing some trouble ina merchants shop almost torturing the guy- I don't even remember why- so I asked the dm if I could make the illusions one way anad he said yes (many dms probably wouldn't allow that though) so I cast an illusion on the windows so that looking in the shop it doesn't look like anythings going on, and looking out you still see the normal street. I did this to stop city guards or whoever from seeing what was happening and attacking us, and one way because my party didn't know who I was or that I could do magic and I wanted to keep it that way. Some other things you could do is make illusions of pits or other obstructions/obstacles as a sort of battle field control since they would try to avoid it, or alternativly make pits look like normal ground so they woukd fall in. You could also combine it with the silent image and minor image to make an illusion that makes sound as well like a higher level illusion. You can use illusions to make a person walking by or sometghing to distract guards/monsters if you're sneaking around. If you needed to hide you could possibly even hide in a corner or something when you were being chased then cast an illusion that makes it lokk like the wall is a little farther forward thus hiding you. And since in this edition you don't even get to make checks to disbelieve illusions till you touch them they wouldn't ever get saves to disbelieve these since they wouldn't be touching what they thought was there any way. Frequently the best illusions are simply changing the invirement in some way to make enemies act like you want and do it in a way that they probaly won't touch whatever the illusion is so they can't disbelieve it. [/QUOTE]
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