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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6256599" data-attributes="member: 6669384">The image doesn't stop the sword.&nbsp; It just gets you to swing at empty space.And listening for breathing or the sounds a body makes won't help.&nbsp; The spell says that creatures dependent on sight or sound won't be able to discern the difference.As for the &quot;I'm facing a mage and he casts a spell, I can still tell where he was.&quot; argument:&nbsp; You see a mage cast a spell, then do a 5 foot step.&nbsp; In five different directions.&nbsp; Or maybe not, since there's still one in the same square where he was.You can stop and study the ground to look for footprints, in combat, but if I were the DM I'd say that taking your attention off the opponent that way is just begging for an AoO.&nbsp; Try it some time in a fist fight.&nbsp; Stop and study the opponent's feet, and what his foot prints look like.&nbsp; You'll be studying his fist, close up, very quickly, and possibly studying the ceiling from a reclining position.The spell description says that you can't tell, visually.&nbsp; Some might think that they're &quot;special&quot;, and can do what the spell says they can't.&nbsp; If the DM is any good, they're wrong.As for the idea of just waving them away with a sword is concerned:&nbsp; In 1st/2nd edition I knew people who decided that throwing a handful of sand at someone negated a Stoneskin, since it stopped a set number of attacks, and each grain of sand counted.That's what the idea of just swinging through all the images at once sounds like:&nbsp; Somebody forgot what the term &quot;attack&quot; means in the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 6256599, member: 6669384"] The image doesn't stop the sword. It just gets you to swing at empty space. And listening for breathing or the sounds a body makes won't help. The spell says that creatures dependent on sight or sound won't be able to discern the difference. As for the "I'm facing a mage and he casts a spell, I can still tell where he was." argument: You see a mage cast a spell, then do a 5 foot step. In five different directions. Or maybe not, since there's still one in the same square where he was. You can stop and study the ground to look for footprints, in combat, but if I were the DM I'd say that taking your attention off the opponent that way is just begging for an AoO. Try it some time in a fist fight. Stop and study the opponent's feet, and what his foot prints look like. You'll be studying his fist, close up, very quickly, and possibly studying the ceiling from a reclining position. The spell description says that you can't tell, visually. Some might think that they're "special", and can do what the spell says they can't. If the DM is any good, they're wrong. As for the idea of just waving them away with a sword is concerned: In 1st/2nd edition I knew people who decided that throwing a handful of sand at someone negated a [I]Stoneskin[/I], since it stopped a set number of attacks, and each grain of sand counted. That's what the idea of just swinging through all the images at once sounds like: Somebody forgot what the term "attack" means in the game. [/QUOTE]

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