Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2343952" data-attributes="member: 18280">Regarding Mirror Image, the DM needs to make one of two possible rulings:(1)  The Mirror Image provides a miss chance that, when a potential hit occurs, either results in a hit or a reduction in the miss chance.(2)  The Mirror Image provides potential targets for attacks, and the attacker is choosing which potential target to attack.If the DM chooses (1) then Magic Missile seems to target all of the images, but really targets only the caster.  It cannot reduce the miss chance, but cannot be fooled by a miss chance either.  Likewise, only a single target exists, allowing only a single AoO.  The question becomes more "where is the target?" than "which target is real?"If the DM chooses (2) then Combat Reflexes should allow multiple AoOs, and the DM has a further question to resolve:  namely, can Magic Missile (and similar spells) target illusory "creatures"?If the DM answers "Yes" to that question, then the caster chooses the target for various missiles, either hitting images (destroying them) or hitting the caster.  I would rule that both (a) requiring the caster of Magic Missile to select each missile's target and (b) having the wrong selections fail to eliminate a potential target would be against the intent of the magic system.  In the event that the DM chooses that Magic Missile cannot target illusory "creatures" (with all of the ramifications for detecting illusions that this implies) I would rule that Magic Missile seems to target all of the images, but really targets only the caster.  It cannot reduce the number of images, but cannot be fooled by the images either.The only problem I see with the initial ruling is that the DM ruled that the images were targets in the case of Magic Missile, but only a miss chance in the case of AoOs.  Other than this, any internally consistent ruling should be fine.Raven Crowking</blockquote>

Verification