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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 6519417" data-attributes="member: 6778479">I had somehow been under the impression that the naga had been caught in the web from your initial description.  Regardless, the purpose of minor illusion would have been that it presumably blocks an arc of vision in which it would be difficult to target your character.  Yes, it is very much inferior to Fog Cloud for this purposes but again has the advantage of not requiring concentration.  The illusion does not NEED to be adjacent to the enemy (if the enemy is mobile)...although that would realistically cause the arc of obscured vision to shrink.  An illusion of something like a wall might not be immediately recognizable as insubstantial enough to fire a lightning bolt through, depending on the DM's tendency to handwave circumstances in favor of the monsters.  I find that it is frequently possible to at least TEST how a DM will handle the ability to target unseen enemies by using spells such as Fog Cloud in easier, less vicious combats.  Many DMs will...TEND...to keep things more or less consistent. Different DMs will, of course, rule differently on the matter.  If monsters are able to unerringly able to target specific PCs, however, while blind and not possessing some sort of extra sense...that probably deserves an out-of-character discussion with said DM.Nagas, incidentally, are altogether immune to charm effects.  And so would have been unaffected by either spell even if the individual specimen was not undead.  I suppose I was thinking of generic anti-caster possibilities.  Tasha's Hideous laughter might have worked, however (with the significant caveats of the spell), most effectively with a readied action.  As might have a well thought-out Phantasmal Force.  Yes, these latter two would both have been less reliable than scorching ray.</blockquote>

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