What is "interacting"?
Can the area effect of silent image be moved on your turn when you concentrate on the spell?
If I use silent image to create spheres of blackness around enemies eyes, can they see? Do they get a save?
If I use major image to light enemies on fire(create fire around them), do they get a save? Do they feel the thermal component of the flames? Are they blinded by the flames? Can they hear over the roar of the flames?
Can a major image talk?
Could 'veiled' creatures have missionary sex even if their base forms lacked the correct pluming do to the touch senses added by veil?
Can you walk on structures in a Mirage Arcana?
If levels went that high:
Can a Simulacrum of a Genie grant its master wishes as they are intended?
Can Shades be used for teleportation, planar binding, and plane shift?
Note: What are the pathfinder society rulings for these? And if they differ from normal games please let me know.
i suggest you go read the 4 links in this post. it should answer a lot of your questions about illusions. anything not covered there is usually up to the GM.
i suggest you go read the 4 links in this post. it should answer a lot of your questions about illusions. anything not covered there is usually up to the GM.
Thanks but that is a 3.5 rules clarification.
As such, they cannot be blinded.
Sight is a sense so an illusion can interfere with sight,sound,touch perception. Blindness can't be duplicated, but seeing only black is effective blindness.
Regardless, I was wondering about PFS rules. I already know how my tables plays it. So this discussion about the rules in general doesn't pertain to my questions. Thank for your input though!
illusions, charms, alignment are three very large things that 'mileage will vary'. it kinda depends on DM... sad to say, but its kinda how those tend to work out. unless it causes major strife, going to a higher up (except through gross negligence) probably would not field you much.
you forgot shadows, and someone that fell through an illusory floor would immediately disbelieve (no save required) as they have undeniable proof it is not there. a diabolical person would create a floor, and open a different hole next to it, but...
Best answer, might be just ask the DM how he handles illusions, specifically glamours, figments, shadows (and one more i can never remember...)
illusions, charms, alignment are three very large things that 'mileage will vary'. it kinda depends on DM... sad to say, but its kinda how those tend to work out. unless it causes major strife, going to a higher up (except through gross negligence) probably would not field you much.
Best answer, might be just ask the DM how he handles illusions, specifically glamours, figments, shadows (and one more i can never remember...)
I was thinking that PFS would have some standards, otherwise a PFS illusionist power would vary widely from table to table.
the rules, are as been said. but they are a bit of a frustration for dm's and new dm's so vary widely in use. best suggestion: keep a dm, and ask. or ask beforehand. is the downside to a living campaign with multiple dm's
I was thinking that PFS would have some standards, otherwise a PFS illusionist power would vary widely from table to table.illusions, charms, alignment are three very large things that 'mileage will vary'. it kinda depends on DM... sad to say, but its kinda how those tend to work out. unless it causes major strife, going to a higher up (except through gross negligence) probably would not field you much.
Best answer, might be just ask the DM how he handles illusions, specifically glamours, figments, shadows (and one more i can never remember...)
it does have standards. the game is based on the 3.5 edition of dungeons and dragons, and any rules clarifications (like the ones i posted) are still valid as long as the wording hasn't changed. just because those links are for 3.5 does not mean they are not valid rules clarifications for pathfinder. my local pfs uses those, so should any others.
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Can Shades be used for teleportation, planar binding, and plane shift?
Yes.
There are two very good guides in the "Guide to the Classes" about how to use and what can or cannot be used for both Shadow Evocation and Shadow Conjuration line of spells.
it does have standards. the game is based on the 3.5 edition of dungeons and dragons, and any rules clarifications (like the ones i posted) are still valid as long as the wording hasn't changed. just because those links are for 3.5 does not mean they are not valid rules clarifications for pathfinder. my local pfs uses those, so should any others.I was thinking that PFS would have some standards, otherwise a PFS illusionist power would vary widely from table to table.illusions, charms, alignment are three very large things that 'mileage will vary'. it kinda depends on DM... sad to say, but its kinda how those tend to work out. unless it causes major strife, going to a higher up (except through gross negligence) probably would not field you much.
Best answer, might be just ask the DM how he handles illusions, specifically glamours, figments, shadows (and one more i can never remember...)
I really doubt that PFS uses 3.5 material. Atleast it shouldn't be.
Can Shades be used for teleportation, planar binding, and plane shift?
Yes.
There are two very good guides in the "Guide to the Classes" about how to use and what can or cannot be used for both Shadow Evocation and Shadow Conjuration line of spells.
That is very neat.
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I was thinking that PFS would have some standards, otherwise a PFS illusionist power would vary widely from table to table.
PFS does not have specific rules for illusions. You may well experience difference from table to table. If that is undesirable, another character concept may be better for you.
PFS does not have specific rules for illusions. You may well experience difference from table to table. If that is undesirable, another character concept may be better for you.
I was thinking that PFS would have some standards, otherwise a PFS illusionist power would vary widely from table to table.
That seems like a pretty big hole in the rules. Especially when you consider all the meta-regulation of character wealth, the lack of item crafting, permanent spell rules and the list of everything that is legal. All of which are done to keep things fair from table to table. You would think something as potentially broken/useless as illusions would have their own set of rule clarifications. But if that is not the case, an illusionist makes an interesting character, whose properties change from table to table.