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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6022116" data-attributes="member: 1165">And here the spell is...It's weirder than I thought, since you can duplicate other people. (It does require 12 hours to cast though, although apparently you can steal someone's hairbrush and duplicate them that way!)It does mean the wizard could make duplicates of people with different personalities as well as skills, if they don't mind the competency limits and, of course, expenditures of time and XP. (They pay off in the long run though!) He could even duplicate a king, although the suddenly lower social skills might be something of a giveaway. (Also, his wife would probably notice something different...)A wizard more interested in intrigue than raw power might consider losing a level or two (over time) to make an army of snowmen worth it. Of course, when someone develops a counter-simulacrum ritual... cue seriously ticked off wizard.I think the biggest problem with simulacra are the same problem a wizard in charge of a proper organization would face... they're not as competent as him, and opponents could take them out one-by-one (like that mob boss example I gave earlier). However, any proper intriguing wizard really needs some backup.I didn't intend to zoom in on simulacrum. I had wanted to talk about astral projection and clone as well, but simulacrum enables wizards to deal with the non-combat aspects of intrigues so well...In Cook's work, do these intriguing wizards have their own organizations, or do they try to handle everything by themselves? Arrogant wizards could easily make mistakes like that, but help is so ... helpful.In the long run, relying on Planar Binding is a heck of a lot more expensive, but casting that spell and negotiating with something with an alignment similar to yours, with proper rewards, would take a lot less time.</blockquote>

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