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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cognomen's Cassowary" data-source="post: 7107145" data-attributes="member: 6801445">No, you didn't mention them, which is exactly my point. You have completely failed to address the mechanical differences between them and magic missile, as you are continuing to do with this evasion.Get off this high horse. He's thrown a shoe. This:  is arbitrary. You have set a limit on the spell's behaviors based neither on its text nor on its mechanical functioning. It is entirely a limit of your conceiving, based on your preferred narrative.This also:  is arbitrary, indicated neither by the text nor the mechanics, and, in fact, it is contradicted by the spell's mechanical ability to find its target while avoiding all cover, intervening creatures, and armor--an ability which you acknowledge.Even this:  is arbitrary, as there is no mention whatsoever of the caster aiming. Given that he or she could potentially be targeting as many as eleven different creatures with magic missile, the idea of the caster aiming at each of them simultaneously disrupts verisimilitude in a way that no interaction with mirror image ever could.I said,  to which you responded,  You still have yet to address the mechanical differences between magic missile and other spells, you continue to insist that magic missile cannot discern things, and your emphasis has been on the caster aiming, leading to the appearance that, within your narrative of the spell, it is some difference in the caster which allows the spell to always strike.How does it home without discerning things? This is no less arbitrary and no less contradictory than when you first said it.You can quit playing silly dominance games and start clarifying your murky spell narrative whenever you like.</blockquote>

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