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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5572025" data-attributes="member: 78958">I'd say if you play a Wizard who's into casting illusion spells, you'll have to assume the following:1. Your PC is very, very intelligent, quite likely more intelligent than any of us here. His/her mind is capable of things we literally haven't dreamed of. Any of you know The Name of the Wind? If you think about what a Wizard PC is capable of, think Kvothe.1. a) In the case of Sorcerers, Bards etc., they just have personalities so forceful that it provides them with A LOT of sheer, raw willpower - which basically can do the same things in D&Dland.2. The PC in question is likely very advanced in cognitive sciences (such as they are in a medieval fantasy world), and the philosophy of aesthetics. He/she likely believes in the power of the mind to shape the world. Like a constructivist, but EVEN MORE.3. The PC in question would likely be able to admit that his horse isn't real in the same sense as a stone found by the road is real or his/her own nose is real. However, he/she'd be able to come up with one hell of a convincing argument how that really makes no difference in the grand scheme of what reality is all about. He/she'd be able to believe the horse is real and isn't real, at the same time. "Is beauty real? Is justice real? Is friendship real? No, they're not, not like a stone is, it's all in our heads - but of course, they ARE real, in a very tangible sense, AS WELL. Why not extend that concept to a horse? All a matter of perspective..."4. Also, the PC in question knows that the horse is at least 20% objectively (whatever that means) real. "We can work with that, it's all a matter of extrapolation! If I 20% don't fall through the saddle, I only need to know why that is, and apply it to the other 80%! Of course, that's easier said than done..."So what it all boils down to, IMO, is that casters know their spells, they know just how they work, they know what they're capable of etc., on a very fundamental level. So why shouldn't a caster be able to abuse the capabilities of a Shadow Conjured Phantom Steed spell?</blockquote>

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