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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rag O'Muffin" data-source="post: 9657494" data-attributes="member: 7035918"><p>I know that this is a thread from very long ago, but that's not the function of illusory dragon. It's shadow magic, so it's fully tangible the same as mirage arcane. Because of that, the targets take actual damage of various types such as fire and acid. That's also not the function of truesight. you would succeed on saves against visual illusions and can automatically identify them. So a creature with true sight would auto succeed on the fear save and discern the dragon as an illusion. Meaning they would have advantage against the damage but not auto-succeed as it is a tactile illusion with a functional form. Aside from auto-successes, true sight gives you no resistance against the damage of illusions. Maybe an oversight in the case of some spells, but most damaging illusions don't deal damage on the basis that they're believed, but by forcing the target to fully experience the damage. Which would only be partially visual in that you could discern it as ficticious due to your sight resulting in a successful save. This is why you can save against an illusion, thus disbelieving it in most cases, but still take half damage. (a bit of a tangent, but one could even get around the autosave function by removing a visual from the illusion. for example: "you feel your innards begin to burn, as the recognizable sting of poison starts to flow through your veins" or "you feel the sharp pain of a blade piercing your back, but when you turn to view your assailant, the room lies empty as if they vanished the moment you realized you were in danger")</p></blockquote><p></p>

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