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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Persiflage" data-source="post: 5268967" data-attributes="member: 73597">Heheh - I like the Photoshop analogy.  Dandu's thinking is much the same as my own: OK, you've got a figment in one spot displaced to be a figment somewhere else, but it still disappears when struck.The counter-argument offered by the player (all in the greatest good spirit, I hasten to add) when this was proposed was "Aha, yes, but these figments are obviously some sort of special case because they disappear when struck.  That means that the spell has some form of collision-detection built in.  Figments are a bundle of sensory impressions, but Displacement is a glamer, and glamers change a subjects sensory qualities to appear to be something other than what they are, but it wouldn't affect the Mirror Image spell's "detection" of being struck."I've condensed it a bit, but I believe that was the substance of the argument.Overlapping spell effects are a constant adjudication niggle with this group.   I don't mind it at all - I thoroughly approve when players make good use of spells - but it can slow down play from time to time.  I've had to institute a "gentlemen's agreement" with the players that they'll warn me in advance (usually at the end of a session to give me time to think it through) before springing some new combo that's likely to cause a rules headache, and I in turn promise to give no thought to countering it until it has been used in play at least once.The "Blur and Mirror Image" Photoshop layering (heh) was done months ago, but abandoned on the grounds that it really didn't add much to the mix... or at least, I assume that's why they stopped doing it.  Sometimes I swear they come up with this stuff just for kicks and get bored once I've allowed it  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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