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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 6256759" data-attributes="member: 78958">I find it curious to see so many folk who seem to have serious problems with this spell. I find the spell description quite sufficient to rule how the spell works.As for imagining it, or immersing myself into the &quot;fiction&quot; as somebody called it... I seem to say this a lot on this board, but please, please read the rules first, understand them second, and only then start to think about the way you'd imagine this or about the way it &quot;works&quot;! Don't go from basic assumptions like &quot;swinging your axe just so should enable you to hit all the images&quot;, or &quot;but you could look at the footprints&quot; (as if a figment couldn't easily replicate those, too...), or &quot;but the fireball is even hotter, so the magical figments should burn even better than from a torch&quot; (can't believe I'm actually typing this).I was very much impressed by the quantum effect hypothesis offered upthread. It basically takes care of everything. But other ways of explaining how the spell works in-game-world are very much possible. As long as you take a peek at what the spell actually does (in game terms) first and come up with your in-game-world explanations second!And yes, it's a powerful spell for 2nd level, but so are others (Glitterdust, Silence, Invisibility...). When playing a Wizard, I usually try to memorize this every day, but it's not so stupidly powerful that it makes you &quot;safe&quot; (whatever that might mean in D&amp;D), or that it's an automatic go-to in the first round of every combat. In fact, it's a good pick for Sorcerers, but far from mandatory. It's not Detect Magic or Dispel Magic, it's just rather good is all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 6256759, member: 78958"] I find it curious to see so many folk who seem to have serious problems with this spell. I find the spell description quite sufficient to rule how the spell works. As for imagining it, or immersing myself into the "fiction" as somebody called it... I seem to say this a lot on this board, but please, [I]please [/I]read the rules first, understand them second, and only [I]then [/I]start to think about the way you'd imagine this or about the way it "works"! [I]Don't [/I]go from basic assumptions like "swinging your axe just so should enable you to hit all the images", or "but you could look at the footprints" (as if a figment couldn't easily replicate those, too...), or "but the fireball is even hotter, so the [B]magical figments[/B] should burn even better than from a torch" (can't believe I'm actually typing this). I was very much impressed by the quantum effect hypothesis offered upthread. It basically takes care of everything. But other ways of explaining how the spell works in-game-world are very much possible. As long as you take a peek at what the spell actually does (in game terms) [I]first [/I]and come up with your in-game-world explanations [I]second[/I]! And yes, it's a powerful spell for 2nd level, but so are others (Glitterdust, Silence, Invisibility...). When playing a Wizard, I usually try to memorize this every day, but it's not so stupidly powerful that it makes you "safe" (whatever that might mean in D&D), or that it's an automatic go-to in the first round of every combat. In fact, it's a good pick for Sorcerers, but far from mandatory. It's not Detect Magic or Dispel Magic, it's just rather good is all. [/QUOTE]

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