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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6691943" data-attributes="member: 6669384">The addition of "that they are holding" could be read many ways.For example, it could limit the spell effect to melee weapons. It could, as face value suggests, have been meant to exclude unarmed and natural weapon strikes.It could have been meant to include only the weapons the beneficiaries were holding at the time the spell went off.Or, as Celebrim suggests, it could have been some author, in love with his own writing style, who added an unnecessary phrase because more is always better.Back on original topic:  An old favorite is the Mirror Image spell.  The caster can swap places with an image only on their action, as part of a move.  So once you hit the real person, you can continue to target them and ignore the images for the rest of your attacks.  Anyone else who can observe your success can, in theory, also target the real spell caster, at least until the caster's next turn, when they can shuffle into the mix again.The spell says images must be within five feet of the caster, or of another image.  That suggests, but doesn't actually say, that the caster would/could have some control over the placement of those images.  It also suggests that each image can take up its own space.That last makes sense.  If they all dance around and overlap in the single square then an attacker, knowing which square the caster is in, could close their eyes and attack into that square.  That would reduce the miss chance to 50%, and effectively foil the purpose of the spell.</blockquote>

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