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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 6520529" data-attributes="member: 6778479">This is not accurate.  Read the spell description - the creature thinks and behaves as if the phenomenon is real.  The example of a victim falling through a Phantasmal bridge happens SPECIFICALLY because the victim acts appropriately on their belief.  A dragon (or anything else) caught in a Phantasmal Force-Web feels the stickiness of the webbing on its body, feels the tension of the strands on its limbs, smells the adhesive (or whatever spider web might smell of) coating the webbing, rationalizes ways in which it is entangled.  It doesn't just try to flap its apparently entangled wings out of the webbing any more than a PC typically walks straight into a wall of force*, ice, or stone that appears when a caster waves their hands without good reason to suspect an illusion.  Escape attempts from nets, grappling foes, restraining spells use an action, not mere movement.  A strong creature might try to ram an apparent wall with the intention of knocking it down, might ignore an elemental that doesn't seem to inflict much damage, might examine a creature after an attack or two fails to hurt it, might investigate webbing that appears to be holding it without being attached to any floors or ceilings, or why a cage is floating in mid-air.ETA - Re: Wall of Force, presuming that a creature has some way of visualizing a Wall of Force...</blockquote>