Moonlight Stalker and Shadow Clone


Rules Questions

Sovereign Court

Does the Mirror Image effect on Shadow Clone count as concealment for Moonlight Stalker? Moonlight Stalker says "When Concealed" you gain good stuff, and Shadow Clone "Conceals your true location" but never gives you a concealment percentage.

Moonlight Stalker Master (Combat)
You leave your opponents swinging at shadows while you slide elusively through the darkness.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Blind-Fight, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Moonlight Stalker, Moonlight Stalker Feint, Bluff 9 ranks, darkvision or low-light vision racial trait.
Benefit: While you have concealment, your opponents' miss chance against you increases by 10%. If an opponent misses you due to your concealment, you can spend an immediate action to move 5 feet, this movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity and does not count as a 5-foot step.

Shadow Clone (Su): The ninja can create 1d4 shadowy duplicates of herself that conceal her true location. This ability functions as mirror image, using the ninja's level as her caster level. Using this ability is a standard action that uses up 1 ki point.

Mirror Image
School illusion (figment); Level bard 2, sorcerer/wizard 2
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 min./level

This spell creates a number of illusory doubles of you that inhabit your square. These doubles make it difficult for enemies to precisely locate and attack you.

When mirror image is cast, 1d4 images plus one image per three caster levels (maximum eight images total) are created. These images remain in your space and move with you, mimicking your movements, sounds, and actions exactly. Whenever you are attacked or are the target of a spell that requires an attack roll, there is a possibility that the attack targets one of your images instead. If the attack is a hit, roll randomly to see whether the selected target is real or a figment. If it is a figment, the figment is destroyed. If the attack misses by 5 or less, one of your figments is destroyed by the near miss. Area spells affect you normally and do not destroy any of your figments. Spells and effects that do not require an attack roll affect you normally and do not destroy any of your figments. Spells that require a touch attack are harmlessly discharged if used to destroy a figment.

An attacker must be able to see the figments to be fooled. If you are invisible or the attacker is blind, the spell has no effect (although the normal miss chances still apply).


Mirror Image (and Shadow Clone) does not grant concealment, so moonlight stalker master doesn't affect it.

While Mirror Image is a lot like concealment, it works differently. Concealment is well defined, and Mirror Image is.. something else.

Shadow Lodge Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8

Interesting thought, but nope.

When Moonlight Stalker refers to concealment, it's referring specifically to the game term Concealment.

While Shadow Clone and and mirror image might 'conceal' your location, they don't grant you Concealment, so you wouldn't gain the benefits of Moonlight Stalker.

Sovereign Court

While this information does bring tears to my player’s eyes, your logic is infallible. Thanks for the clarification.

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