Blur Vs. Magic Missle

[Warpath42]

Had an instance of this tonight. NPC had taken a potion of Blur causing a 20% miss chance on attacks. Player used Magic Missle. So because MM has no attack roll and Blur does not give total concealment or cover, MM hits. Correct?

[Chris Kenney]

Yep.

[Drakkiel]

Quote:

A missile of magical energy darts forth from your fingertip and strikes its target, dealing 1d4+1 points of force damage.

The missile strikes unerringly, even if the target is in melee combat, so long as it has less than total cover or total concealment. Specific parts of a creature can't be singled out. Objects are not damaged by the spell.

so yea...MM hits I would say :)

[ZomB]

Yes. Blur wont protect you from MM.

Similarly Mirror Image wont protect you from MM or chain lightning

[TimrehIX]

I thought Mirror Image did protect from MM. It's in how MI works. The MMs hit the illuionary doubles instead of the real one. Then the doubles go poof.

[Heymitch]

@ TimrehIX - you're thinking of 3.5 Magic Missile. The Magic Missile spell in Pathfinder doesn't interact with spells that don't require an attack roll. So, you can't blow away images with Magic Missiles (or a bunch of them with Fireballs). The target would be affected by the spell and all of the images would remain intact.