Any magics in the rulebooks mimic photos or video?


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I was thinking of making an enemy NPC that would delight in tormenting players by doing something we see now in reality-shows. E.g. catch them at their worst and then replay the worst moment image. E.g. the NPC is an devil morphed into a beautiful woman, seduce the PC and when the PC is about to get it on, sees the girl is really a dude (let alone a devil), he'll freak out and the devil captures the image(s) and delights in showing them off at the character's expense, and at key moments, such as when the PC is in vulnerable social moments. E.g. the devil comes in morphed as a person and tells locals stories of the PC while showing them videos and images of the embarrassing moments.

The devil in this case would get a type of psychic fulfillment chronically psychologically torturing the PC, and obviously the PC will likely want to kill the devil and destroy if not take over the magic that allows for this.

OK so there's the premise but if I did this, the players are going to be like, "what spell is that" or if it's from an item they'll want the item, so the technical could get important for game playing. All the illusion spells I see are very combat based such as Mirror Image and don't fit into a more role-playing aspect like this.

Can anyone guide me to magic devices, spells, or psionics that'll allow for this type of thing already in the rules?

Shadow Lodge

There's instant portrait


They might get some mileage out of share memory. The main drawback is there's no mass share memory, though it would be straightforward to invent it.


There's also the DM using descriptive text to describe the effects of Nightmare or even Phantasmal Killer or combining spells like Share Memories plus various Illusion spells to portray what the OP is envisioning.


Silent image. Bonus: it doesn't have to be an image of what actually happened, so the caster can "embellish" as much as desired.


Stolen Light, while a bit pricey due to gem requirements, is the instant-Polaroid feature you might be looking for. :D

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