werk said:
I guess what I really am curious about is WHY you would run it the way you do. Do you think MI is underpowered? Do you think figments should be targetable? Do you have a relationship with the FAQ and if you don't say she's right you'll have to sleep on the couch? I'm not saying your opinion is without merit, far from it, I'm just trying to understand what that merit would be.
I am working from the spell description, from the RAW. I think neither that the spell is underpowered nor that figments are underpowered, but that the FAQ is correct and anyone who disagrees is arguing a weak position based on the RAW for the spells involved and for figments.
I have stated my reasons for believing so at length in this thread, so if you don't understand my viewpoint, you either haven't read the thread, don't know the rules, or disagree on what the rules say.
The spell states the duplicates appear to be you. You appear as someone with an image distorted enough to have a miss chance. Therefore, your duplicates are equally distorted.
If you disregard the FAQ answer, the figments fail to be displaced when attacked, and hence are distinguishable from your image, and hence disagree with the description of mirror image. As this results in a contradiction, the opposite answer, the FAQ answer, is therefore the remaining alternative.
The FAQ answer does not lead to a contradiction. It allows all the spells to function exactly as written in their description. It does not break any rules.
It's true, figments aren't a valid target for blur, but that is not a problem. Figments also can't wear full plate armor or have a Dex score, but mirror images can
appear to do both.
Very simple. The only problem crops up when you insist blur is somehow being cast on the figment. Please refer me to where in the rules casting blur on yourself is casting blur on a figment. I was under the prehaps simplistic viewpoint that when you cast blur on yourself, that you are casting it on you, a living creature.