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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2279503" data-attributes="member: 19675">As someone further up-thread hinted, why should an illusionist be limited to what he's seen?He has an imagination, after all.&nbsp; Maybe he has noticed that many beasties in the PMP are oddball combinations of other creatures, so If a Hippogriff, why not an Anteleopard or a Dracotroll?&nbsp; And if he's seen ANY extraplanar beings, he can add even further to his repetoir.And no bonuses should accrue to the saving throws of the targets of his improbable beasties because they are just as aware of the world's fauna as he is!As for why the shadow spells are a sorcerer's friend, it is because rather than be limited by the the couple of spells he ACTUALLY knows, he can simulate almost any spell he has witnessed being cast. Thus, a sorcerer with shadow evocation can affect creatures immune to fire, lighning, cold, etc., wheras his buddy who has Fireball or Flame Arrow as his main 3rd level attack spell is going to be useless when facing that 21HD Flame Elemental the dumb fighter just released...Sure, its costly, but it adds flexibility.&nbsp; And at that, its no worse than adding most metamagic feats to a spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 2279503, member: 19675"] As someone further up-thread hinted, why should an illusionist be limited to what he's seen? He has an imagination, after all. Maybe he has noticed that many beasties in the PMP are oddball combinations of other creatures, so If a Hippogriff, why not an Anteleopard or a Dracotroll? And if he's seen ANY extraplanar beings, he can add even further to his repetoir. And[I] no bonuses[/I] should accrue to the saving throws of the targets of his improbable beasties because they are just as aware of the world's fauna as he is! As for why the shadow spells are a sorcerer's friend, it is because rather than be limited by the the couple of spells he ACTUALLY knows, he can simulate almost any spell he has witnessed being cast. Thus, a sorcerer with shadow evocation can affect creatures immune to fire, lighning, cold, etc., wheras his buddy who has Fireball or Flame Arrow as his main 3rd level attack spell is going to be useless when facing that 21HD Flame Elemental the dumb fighter just released... Sure, its costly, but it adds flexibility. And at that, its no worse than adding most metamagic feats to a spell. [/QUOTE]

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