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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 4043804" data-attributes="member: 1165">You can't target a 5 foot square with a regular attack (unless you close your eyes, in which cast there's a 50% miss chance). You can target a 5 foot square with an area attack, however, like a flask of alchemist's fire or an area-of-effect spell.Here's the short version of how the spell works, as far as I can tell. Note that the "caster" here always refers to the being who cast Mirror Image (even if their opponent is also a "caster").1) You create x number of duplicates. They all share the same square. Since there's not enough space, they partially overlap the caster and each other.2) An enemy using a normal attack (not area-of-effect, not using a non-visual sense) randomly picks one of the "images" to attack. (One of the images could be the caster.) Note that an attacker who has more than one attack (iteratives, Rapid Shot, dual-wielding, etc) could split their attacks amongst the images.a) If the enemy hits an image, it winks out.b) If the enemy hits the caster, they take damage and the caster is temporarily identified.3) If the caster is identified, they can move, which causes all the images to shift (so the attacker no longer knows which is which).4) Mirror Image is great against most kinds of magic. A Fireball spell, for instance, will not cause the images to wink out (even though they're all going to get hit). They just all look like the (presumably injured) caster. However, Magic Missile is a great spell to cast in this instance, because you can pick one "image" with each missile, causing several to wink out and possibly also hitting (and therefore temporarily identifying) who the caster is.5) Naturally, True Seeing sees through the images.6) It is not a Will disbelief spell!I vaguely recall the spell being far more complicated in 3.0. Ugh.</blockquote>

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