Originally Posted by Anaraxes (Post 2207385)

A common rule in RPGs for creating things that are useful and/or beautiful with magic is that you can only do so as well as your own skill allows, as if you were making it without magic. Not that TFT has skills, exactly, but I'd expect some points burned on photographic memory as well as professional/crafting Talents invented as needed, to produce paintings, movies, accurate records, reproducing the enemy codebook you glanced at, etc.

Originally Posted by Dave Crowell (Post 2155707)

You could always cast an Illusion of a fireball springing from the fingertips of the illusory you. Although tere comes a point where it's just not worth keeping up the pretense.

Originally Posted by Anomylous (Post 2206075)

I'd argue that yes, you would. (great quote btw!)


- Figures can cross an illusory bridge and find themselves safely on the other side after the illusion ends – but were I GM'ing, I'd definitely force a disbelief check when they stepped onto it, if they knew it was an illusion, and I'd give the casting wizard a *bonus* to that roll! Same if characters were taking cover from arrow fire behind an illusory wall, etc.

- The illusory cover on the keg of gunpowder would hold up the torch and no explosion would occur... so long as the illusion remained intact. If anyone in the vicinity knew that cover was an illusion, though, I'd force a Disbelief check, since now their safety suddenly depends on the reality of a thing which they knew was an illusion.

Originally Posted by Shostak (Post 2211679)

This post poses the question of what happens when an illusion of a warrior attacks and rolls a critical failure resulting in either a dropped or broken weapon. I ran a search on this thread to see if this had been discussed and nothing turned up, so I bring up the question here. Illusions can't divide. So, what happens? Has this already been hashed out and I (and my search) missed it?

I don't recall illusions breaking weapons ever coming up at my table. But it will eventually! I suggest that the illusion (or image) should vanish.

Originally Posted by hcobb (Post 2211687)

Create image of a flame inside a lantern that is enchanted with Maintain Image(ITL p158) then hang it up in a tavern so that the wizard can look through its "eyes" forever.

Originally Posted by BrotherBill (Post 2211762)

There can only be one: An illusion creates one thing, so either the warrior or weapon would have to go. A parallel problem happens when a summoned myrmidon drops a weapon. It could be played that the event breaks the spell, or played that only the weapon disappears. I play the latter because it allows the use of 32 point myrmidons summoned with advanced melee weapons rules but still precludes them from using missile or thrown weapons (which gets abusive).