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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 2345318" data-attributes="member: 13107">Targetting is importantThat magic missiles can only target creatures, that could be interpreted as arequirement of a magic missile's ability to hone in their target unerringly: therehas to be a living (or semi-living: construct, undead, elemental) entity there tolock onto and to damage.  The force effect might only come into play when theforce of the spell achieves a focus on the target.To provide an answer re: MM and MI, couldn't one just rule that "A magic missile,one or more of a salvo from a single casting, may target a creature under theeffects of mirror image; in this case, the missile strikes randomly at the creatureor at one of the figments; if a figment is targetted, it is dissipated by the missile.Note: this is an exception to the normal targetting rules for magic missile.  Eachmissile is directed at a random target, even if all were initially targetted at thesame image."No particular logic; perhaps the result of an escalation between mages refiningmagic missile and others refining mirror image, with the ability to target a mirrorimage figment being a special enhancement added to magic missile, takingadvantage of the leaching through of the creatureness of the figments causedby the random exchange of figments and the caster.As a side note, the text of mirror image seems to imply that the shifting of thecaster amoung the images happens when the caster ** moves **.  In thatcase, if you get lucky to hit the caster on the first of iterative attacks, say,from haste or from a high BAB, wouldn't you get to target the caster on yourremaining attacks?  That's not how my groups play it, but an interesting reading.Also, the text of the spell seems to imply that you can exchange positions withan image.  So, let's say that out of combat you string a line of four images acrossa room with a deadly trap.  The images don't set off the trap.  (Or do they?)Then you exchange yourself with the image on the far side of the room, neatlybypassing the trap.  Again, that's not how my groups play it, but fun interpretation.(The two readings are probably mistaking movement as move actions, where thespell text just means the basic shifting of the caster in place, not actual moveactions.)Thx,TFB</blockquote>

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