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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meeki" data-source="post: 1938918" data-attributes="member: 17257"><p>First off how many detect magics is one wizard going to prepare? He/she won't have many 0 level slots and preparing a lvl 0 in higher level slots is just silly.  If a wizard does cast detect magic in a room with lets say illusory wall on it he will know that is it an illusion, assuming he makes the check.  Good job he made it through a spell cast 5 years ago by the illusionist.  Now the fake walls and ceilings were created in a room that is made of lets say 16 doors 4 for each verticle wall.  The illusory wall was just covering up these doors to make it look like a room with no exit.  So the lvl 0 spell the wizard cast helped the wizard I.D. the illusion, not dispelling it or stoping it from impeding vision really.  Only one of those doors leads anywhere useful. Ok useful for a lvl 0 spell.  The next room the wizard comes into is a bit suspicious and he casts detect magic again revealing another illusory wall spell.  This time its covering up a guards and wards spell that has nystul's magic aura cast upon it.  Anyways the point I'm getting at is, unless the wizard brings a wand of detect magic he can only find out what is really an illusion for so long.  On top of that illusions work the best when coupled with crafty tricks and traps.  Having a persistant image of a wall for a few minutes might just be covering up a room filled with traps or a dead end and the party goes that way because of the assumption that if it was cast there something important must be behind it.  Illusion is a tough school and I think that you definitely need other source material, such as the books of eldritch might, to make the school more potent.  Be creative, be inventive thats how illusion is meant to played IMHO.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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