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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7155689" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>Oddball illusions:</p><p>- The hallway continues thataway beyond the range of your light. Do something to scare the enemy into fleeing thataway. First guy crashes into the real wall and a traffic jam ensues. Now cast <em>Fireball</em> on the conveniently concentrated mob of foes.</p><p>- The hallway does NOT extend any farther; you see a dead end. The PCs all stand quietly down the hallway behind the fake wall and let the enemy go by.</p><p>- A bunch of kids pass by. Useful when both sides wish to not be discovered or made public.</p><p>- Romeo and Juliet are playing kissyface in an alcove (or are hot-and-heavy necking in a closet, if you have a 'sound-only' version). Whose reputation did you want to besmirch?</p><p>- Very drunken Lord Huffandpuff staggers across the ballroom.</p><p>- Illusory copy of somebody who has bragged that he can hold his liquor, getting sick to his stomach over the ship's railing.</p><p>- Create an illusory person. Publicly challenge it to a duel, to show how good you are with a blade.</p><p>- Several stumps / bushes / &c are an area of difficult terrain.</p><p>- Zone of sticker weeds (thorny). Make the Druid jealous he didn't think of it first.</p><p>- Illusion of a tall hedge, with the Rogue/Assassin hiding within fully prepped for an Alpha Strike sneak attack.</p><p>- Cast the illusion over yourself to look like somebody harmless (like a toddler)</p><p>- "Look - over there! A Mind Flayer! Everybody RUN!" Or have it sneak up <u>behind you</u> in plain sight of the enemy.</p><p>- Subtly alter your group's appearance so you look like you are "normal people" wearing Halloween costumes.</p><p>- Combine with Tiefling's <em>Thaumaturgy</em> so he not only makes a grand entrance into the room, everybody thinks they are looking at Darth Vader (or similarly impressive personality).</p><p>- A bunch of the enemy horde just failed their morale roll and run away, in plain view of the rest of the horde. Variant: they run off to the side of the battlefield and you yell "Oh no - they're gonna plunder the wagon train!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7155689, member: 6803337"] Oddball illusions: - The hallway continues thataway beyond the range of your light. Do something to scare the enemy into fleeing thataway. First guy crashes into the real wall and a traffic jam ensues. Now cast [I]Fireball[/I] on the conveniently concentrated mob of foes. - The hallway does NOT extend any farther; you see a dead end. The PCs all stand quietly down the hallway behind the fake wall and let the enemy go by. - A bunch of kids pass by. Useful when both sides wish to not be discovered or made public. - Romeo and Juliet are playing kissyface in an alcove (or are hot-and-heavy necking in a closet, if you have a 'sound-only' version). Whose reputation did you want to besmirch? - Very drunken Lord Huffandpuff staggers across the ballroom. - Illusory copy of somebody who has bragged that he can hold his liquor, getting sick to his stomach over the ship's railing. - Create an illusory person. Publicly challenge it to a duel, to show how good you are with a blade. - Several stumps / bushes / &c are an area of difficult terrain. - Zone of sticker weeds (thorny). Make the Druid jealous he didn't think of it first. - Illusion of a tall hedge, with the Rogue/Assassin hiding within fully prepped for an Alpha Strike sneak attack. - Cast the illusion over yourself to look like somebody harmless (like a toddler) - "Look - over there! A Mind Flayer! Everybody RUN!" Or have it sneak up [U]behind you[/U] in plain sight of the enemy. - Subtly alter your group's appearance so you look like you are "normal people" wearing Halloween costumes. - Combine with Tiefling's [I]Thaumaturgy[/I] so he not only makes a grand entrance into the room, everybody thinks they are looking at Darth Vader (or similarly impressive personality). - A bunch of the enemy horde just failed their morale roll and run away, in plain view of the rest of the horde. Variant: they run off to the side of the battlefield and you yell "Oh no - they're gonna plunder the wagon train!" [/QUOTE]
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