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Just something I was musing on. I've always pictured force energy as the kind of shimmering effect you get when hot air is rising from something. The energy itself is transparent but you can see it by the way it distorts things on the other side. It go me curious how do other people see force energy? By which I mean what do you picture it looking like not how you actually SEE it.
Well, magic missile is force energy, and I've always envisioned them as visible. Most spells that I can think of that manifests force energy describe what the spell looks like. Battering blast says the spell looks like a spiked sphere.
I've never really thought about what force energy looks like, only that it can be seen. Hmm. I guess I'd envision it as a white, translucent energy.
I agree with Diego Rossi on this one.
My imagination has always been that it's visible as slightly glowing ice blue objects, unless it specifically says it's invisible.
We do have many video games that have a magic missile spell. It's usually depicted as being glowing and streaming. And yes, it is often blue for some reason.
I always figured it was like the stuff Green Lantern makes. Visible (unless it says otherwise) and solid, sort of force-field like.
it's most certainly visible, unless the spell says otherwise. So I imagine it to be a semi transparent blue glow effect.
I think between Tolkien, Eddings, and Magic: The Gathering, fantasy fans have long been conditioned to think magic is blue. ;)
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I think between Tolkien, Eddings, and Magic: The Gathering, fantasy fans have long been conditioned to think magic is blue. ;)
Some of us see the base magic colour as Octarine.
Seriously though I'm inclined to clear glass over blue. Though I could see an argument for my personal taste of magic being like a fingerprint with specific clearly identifiable patterns to the wielder. For example my force effect is an opalescant colour (reds, blues, yellow, greens shifting and changing) with a hint of waves and an ocean breeze. Meanwhile Tito's force effect is yellowy gold and smells of wheat. Then you layer specific effects over them e.g. a cone of cold is white snow and ice in hte physical world while those who can detect magic can see your particular signature in it.
I think barriers made of force (like wall of force) would be invisible. If you had a wall of force that someone made permanent, it would probably eventually get dust and dirt on it (unless they cleaned it from time to time) which would make it semi-visible. Think of how glass is normally transparent, but it can get so covered in grime it becomes almost opaque (although I don't think light would reflect off a wall of force like it does on a glass window.)
The wizard I played in Kingmaker cast either silvery magic missiles or by adding a word, cast purple bolts of force. He preferred the purple ones. Was just a magic missile spell, either way.
The Mass Effect fan in me always associates it with Biotic powers, so I'm usually in the Flashy Blue Energy wagon. But also I've played enough 5e Warlocks with Eldritch Blast to be like "what if green/purple?" I guess it's more of, like, a raw magic energy and so could feasibly be very malleable in appearance depending on caster and what kind of vibe they've got going. If my players wanna get a Vaporwave Magic Missile rave going who am I to ruin their dreams?
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I have always figured destructive force glows and stationary force is visible only in that it's optical properties are not that of air. Since nothing can affect it that means there are no chemical bonds, no static electricity etc--it's the ultimate teflon, nothing will stick. It can't get dirty.
Hmmm force frying pan?
Hmmm force frying pan?
They don't teach you that one in Jedi school and they should
When is the force it depends in the caster will example mage armor you could make invisible or look like a translucent armor
Like this pale blue energy and frequently it manifests as people I have known that have died and are trying to give me advice or tell me that I've gone a good job. What? Oh sorry, not that Force.
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We've always encouraged descriptions from the player casting the spell. We've had Magic Missiles that looks like wasps, that looked like flying arcane runes, that looked like skeletal fists, and tons more. (We try to encourage this kind of thing for more than just Force spells, obviously; it doesn't change the mechanic.) We've had Blade Barriers look like thousands of spinning light sabers, that look like thousands of spinning Holy Symbols, that look like, I dunno remember, other stuff. A Wall of Force that looked like a crenelated castle wall, yada yada.