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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 6929266" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Pertaining to realism, it depends on how you picture the mirror images and how much they are confusing you. 5e moves away from the miniatures-on-a-grid model, but honestly, the spell ought to be a case of "place the wizard and each image in a separate square, keep which one is real a secret, then have the opponent select which image they are going after" situation. If you don't do that, then they really need to define blind fighting better. Otherwise, we do run into these conundrums. For myself, if my players said that their PCs were closing their eyes to avoid the mirror image spell, I would ask them, "so how do you know where your opponent is to swing your sword at them?" And we can start debating how effective a blind person can realistically fight (which will be a messy discussion, but at least it won't be a gamist one). As to the rules-- outside of the monster description of medusas, is there even a rule for closing your eyes? If we are going to be RAW-uber-alles-minded, should we even be assuming that closing one's eyes is a game-rule-relevant option?</blockquote>