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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moff_Tarkin" data-source="post: 4836570" data-attributes="member: 14175">I understand our DM misinterprets how illusions work. In a previous module we facesd an illusionary pit trap that came right before a real pit trap covered by an illusionary floor. The illusionary pit trap was just a basic spell, like a figment of some kind. The idea, obviously, is that you would think the illusion was real then jump over it into the real pit trap. Stepping on the illusionary pit trap should give you “proof” that’s its not real as you wouldn’t fall in.Our DM ruled that the one guy who actually fell into the illusionary pit trap actually believed he fell down into it and then took a large amount of illusionary damage. Then he and everyone else in the party believed he was actually lying injured at the bottom of a 20-foot pit trap. It made for a interesting physics argument when we threw a rope down to a guy who was actually sitting right there on the ground.I think our DM has a little problem with the power of human perception and mind over matter. I have had discussions with him in real life that draw the conclusion that his is the kind of person that believes in the year xxxx the world was flat because everyone thought it was flat. I have known people who think that way. I think its little disturbing myself, but people are entitled to follow their own philosophies.Another PC presented the DM with an analogy, I don’t know what to make of it but I want to know what you guys would say. You have a cabinet full of illusionary food. You fail your will save so you believe the food to be real. You eat the food day after day. You don’t seem to gain any nourishment and you body is wasting away. Would you continue to eat the food or would you draw the conclusion that something was wrong with the food? The DM claims that if you failed your save to see the food was an illusion, then you would assume it was real and that the problem must have been with you. Then you would eat the food until you died.</blockquote>

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