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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7108495" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Since your target is 'the guy with all the images' then the fact that the images are swirling around does not impede your ability to target 'the guy with all the images'. That guy is still perfectly apparent; he looks like a swirling mass if images, but I know it's one creature and that's the creature I mentally choose to affect with my spell.Good job I don't need to precisely aim this spell in order for it to affect my chosen target!And once again, magic missile does not make you lose track of the target creature. It just makes it impossible to tell which of the images is the real guy. If your spell doesn't need to know which image is which then the images don't bother you.I'm claiming that the fact that both attacks and spells take time is simply not relevant to the issue at hand, which is what you claimed. Don't make me quote you.Deflecting again. Spells and attacks that require attack rolls must be aimed at some part of the target in order to have a chance of hitting. Spells without an attack roll simply do not require aiming at all! Things that interfere with accurate aiming have no detrimental effect for those spells.And they were wrong. It doesn't make them bad people. I myself carry baggage from previous editions and I sometimes make the incorrect assumption that things with the same name work the same in 5E than they did in previous editions, at least until the new wording is pointed out.The new way makes perfect sense for its own concept. It carries no burden requiring it to match the concept of previous versions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7108495, member: 6799649"] Since your target is 'the guy with all the images' then the fact that the images are swirling around does not impede your ability to target 'the guy with all the images'. That guy is still perfectly apparent; he looks like a swirling mass if images, but I know it's one creature and that's the creature I mentally choose to affect with my spell. Good job I don't need to precisely aim this spell in order for it to affect my chosen target! And once again, [i]magic missile[/i] does not make you lose track of the target creature. It just makes it impossible to tell which of the images is the real guy. If your spell doesn't need to know which image is which then the images don't bother you. I'm claiming that the fact that both attacks and spells take time is simply not relevant to the issue at hand, which is what you claimed. Don't make me quote you. Deflecting again. Spells and attacks that require attack rolls must be aimed at some part of the target in order to have a chance of hitting. Spells without an attack roll simply do not require aiming at all! Things that interfere with accurate aiming have no detrimental effect for those spells. And they were wrong. It doesn't make them bad people. I myself carry baggage from previous editions and I sometimes make the incorrect assumption that things with the same name work the same in 5E than they did in previous editions, at least until the new wording is pointed out. The new way makes perfect sense for its own concept. It carries no burden requiring it to match the concept of previous versions. [/QUOTE]

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