Originally Posted by
viaFAMILIAR
Something about phantasmal force being a 2nd level spell(fairly expensive) @1d6(quite weak) psychic, tells me it should be more effective than I believe. Is it the damage type? Or the fact that the target needs only to fail a single investigation check to believe it's completely real. Sure, it's use is mainly area control (would a creature cross a chasm if they believed it were real and they couldn't make the jump?), aren't there more effective spells for this application? I really like how illusion spells aren't save based, forcing an action to intelligence(investigation) check instead. I don't see much use past duping a big dummy. However, creating the image of a giant constrictor snake as the party beefcake grapples it's taget sounds pretty rad, would they investigate the illusion or escape the grapple?