| Iryani Calahan |
If a phantom is in its spiritualist’s consciousness, is it protected from all spells? I can understand physical ones (fireball, black tentacles) and line of sight/effect (dominate person), but what about spells that only specify range? Mass Charm Person, for example, says “Target one or more creatures, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart” (ignoring that phantoms might not count as a “person,” it was the first spell that came to mind).
The only specifics I can find for a phantom is as follows:
“A phantom can’t be dismissed or banished (by a spell or any other similar effect) while it resides in the spiritualist’s consciousness, as the phantom is protected from such effects by the power of the spiritualist’s psyche.”
The reason this came up is because I am making a homebrew draconic creature who has a mind-affecting breath weapon. It deals psychic damage (or near enough, since pathfinder doesn’t actually have that as a damage type), and also steals a memory on a failed save. Would the phantom be unaffected, use their own saving throw, or use their spiritualist’s result?