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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8845270" data-attributes="member: 2209">Fun with illusionsAs a noble sorcerer I welcomed a fellow PC aspiring arcane trickster to magic club and gave her some advice on a spell of hers for when we knew we were going up against a basilisk. The barbarian with blindfighting went first, and ran up to fight it with reduced penalties while avoiding the gaze. The DM gets around to the trickster's turn expecting her to run up to try and sneak attack ineffectually with her dagger as she has against foes in the past but instead she pulls out the 1st level phantasmal force illusion and conjures a strapped on hood over the basilisk's head. &quot;Like the eyeless ones you use on hawks before unleashing them.&quot; as I had suggested in my magic club adviser role. Her one non-cantrip spell. The DM looks annoyed and thinks for a while then smiles and says &quot;It is interacting with the hood, it can get a save, and it does. It turns its gaze upon . . .&quot; at which point I chime in &quot;Let's all just choose not to save against the illusion on our end so we do not meet its gaze.&quot; The DM's smile froze, then dropped and he whispered, &quot;Oh god, that works.&quot; High fives for the magic club.Illusions can be very satisfying.That was a pathfinder 1e game though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8845270, member: 2209"] Fun with illusions As a noble sorcerer I welcomed a fellow PC aspiring arcane trickster to magic club and gave her some advice on a spell of hers for when we knew we were going up against a basilisk. The barbarian with blindfighting went first, and ran up to fight it with reduced penalties while avoiding the gaze. The DM gets around to the trickster's turn expecting her to run up to try and sneak attack ineffectually with her dagger as she has against foes in the past but instead she pulls out the 1st level phantasmal force illusion and conjures a strapped on hood over the basilisk's head. "Like the eyeless ones you use on hawks before unleashing them." as I had suggested in my magic club adviser role. Her one non-cantrip spell. The DM looks annoyed and thinks for a while then smiles and says "It is interacting with the hood, it can get a save, and it does. It turns its gaze upon . . ." at which point I chime in "Let's all just choose not to save against the illusion on our end so we do not meet its gaze." The DM's smile froze, then dropped and he whispered, "Oh god, that works." High fives for the magic club. Illusions can be very satisfying. That was a pathfinder 1e game though. [/QUOTE]

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