I always figured it causes some kind of seizure or the like.
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Imagine someone replaced a skunk's stink gland with a can of spray paint.
It's about like that.
A flashbang grenade without the bang, made of colours that should never be mixed.
Note that as an Illusion spell, the whole spray of colored light is an illusionary mind-grenade...
I read somewhere the right pattern of colored lights can make anyone have a seizure. People with epilepsy are just MORE vulnerable to lights than most people. Anyone know if it's true.
Oh something else I keep meaning ot ask. Does closing your eyes help at all vs color spray?
It might, but only if you identify a Color Spray being cast before it takes effect... personally, If you make the Spellcraft roll to recognize it as it's cast, I'd give you a +2 to the Saving Throw roll, but that's purely my house rule... of course, you are blinded for the whole round... or for the whole next round if you took your turn before the CS was cast.
It should work due to pattern spells creating an image and affecting the minds of those that see that image, but generally if you're just going to close your eyes for the moment the spell goes off I'd say that's what the save is for.
Peril-sensitive sunglasses are cooler anyway.
Oh something else I keep meaning ot ask. Does closing your eyes help at all vs color spray?
The really weird thing about Color Spray and other Pattern spells is that they're like Figment spells - they aren't real light, they're an illusion of light. But if a creature closes its eyes, does it still see an illusion? Presumably not, since that would automatically prove the illusion isn't real anyways...
Oh something else I keep meaning ot ask. Does closing your eyes help at all vs color spray?
No it does not.
Sightless creatures are not effected by color spray, but closing your eyes (or wearing a blindfold) does not make you into a sightless creature.
Very well, thank you.
Magic laser light show. The blinding happens because you got someone right in the eye with it.
Rainbows and unicorns(and possibly Nyan cat) spring forth from your casting appendage overloading everyone's senses who fail the save.
O_O
...I'mma gonna write that down. : D
Not sure what the intention was, but my brother is a biochemist and is always coming up with cool detailed interpretations for spells other than just... "Magic".
For color spray he used the rational that the spell warps the neural synapses of the target's neural pathways to cones in their eyes. This disturbs their ability to distinguish colors on the light spectrum and blending their vision together.
Stunned creatures are so overwhelmed by the blurred and warped colors of their vision, and blinded creatures have their nerves warped so much that they can't even distinguish outlines from the blended lights.
It might not be the most accurate, but it is at least fun to listen too.
I could never figure this spell out, for this reason:
Components V, S, M (red, yellow, and blue powder or colored sand)If it was anything resembling an actual light display or a neural screw, it would be based in the colours that a person's light receptors recognize. It's not, so it needs to be a partially reflective surface, which doesn't fit at all with an illusion that can still be deployed in the dark.
I RIIIIIIIISE....