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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6584413" data-attributes="member: 2011">Have you read the Minor Illusion spell? It does not give advantage. A DM could allow it to give advantage to a PC, but that's extremely generous use of the spell that the spell itself does not give. Advantage really should not be handed out with a cantrip, especially without some form of to hit roll or save.Note: A real shower of sparks is not an object and is moving energy, nothing in the spell indicates that an illusionary object from Minor Illusion can actually move. Think of Minor Illusion as a photograph of an object. A photograph of a shower of sparks is just yellow motes hanging in the air (and of course, those sparks do not give off light).Personally, I would not give advantage for a bunch of floating yellow motes. Just like I would not give advantage to the Rogue because a Web spell (also magic that just suddenly appeared) was cast next to the target.Nor can Minor Illusion do this. There is nothing in the cantrip that indicates that the image can move like higher level illusions, nor can it do sound at the same time (image or sound, not both).There are stronger illusions that might manage this, but not Minor Illusion.Edit. Note: The sound could be done without the image, but any NPCs standing in that vicinity would probably be looking around wondering who was yelling this out.First off, Minor Illusion cannot create light.But even if it could, as the buyer tries to move the item upwards of 5 feet away, it stops glowing. Hmmmm. Worse yet, as the buyer physically interacts with the item, he immediately knows that there is an illusion (the roll is only needed if someone tries to figure out the illusion without physically interacting with it).This one would work.The problem with Minor Illusion is that it is a stationary up to 5x5x5 image that doesn't interact. It's just an illusionary object (or, it's a sound), sitting there, a 3D photograph. It's not a movie. It does not move.It seems like you are changing the cantrip to give it the umph that I stated that it does not have. Well yeah, if you give the cantrip more umph and versatility, then of course a Wizard casting it would be more versatile.</blockquote>

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