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Let's gather a list of effective uses of silent image.
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1. A wall further out then the real wall
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3. Make a bridge over a cliff.
4. When they figure this out and test the bridges, extend the cliff by 5 or so feet.Avatar of Rudisplork Avatar of PC-dom and Slayer of the Internet. Extended sig
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5. An open doorway where there is none.
6. cover over a pit.
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7. An optical illusion of a pit on the ground, to make them stop for at least a moment so you can ambush.
8. A silent movie.Last edited by Forrestfire; 2014-09-30 at 11:54 AM.
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7. A destroyed chest where there is a full one.
8. A trebuchet/cannon or other large imposing weapon. (Double this up with some well timed castings of pyrotechnics and ghost sound for effect if need be)You don't want the monster? You don't throw the switch.
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11. Any sorcerer or wizard conjuration (summoning), conjuration (creation), or evocation spell of at least one level lower. (Sorry, had to.)
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12. Visage of a deity watching over you.
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13. Personal sexy show for lonely wizard teenagers
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13.5. Make money by organizing a sexy show.
(Fun fact: a character once did just that, except that she sold tickets to illusions of her sister bathing. Said sister (who happens to have a piece of a god's soul inside her) found out and... was not amused.): I may be in error, but I believe the appropiate proclamation is "Sneak Attack, bitch."
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14. Large glowing arrow saying, "Big Bad This Way!" to put outside the entrance to your adventurer slaughterhouse.
15. Battlefield map for allies to see. You may then precede to animate your game-plan drawings.Dascarletm, Spinner of Rudiplorked Tales, and Purveyor of PunsThanks to Artman77 for the avatar!
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16. Mimes. Doing something Mimey.
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17. Combine with Invisible Spell metamagic and create a wall between your party and the enemy spellcaster who's known to have See Invisibility up. Now you can see the enemy caster, but they only see a wall when looking toward you.
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18. A thick fog, which you use a pre-arranged signal to let your allies know is an illusion. (+4 to their save, and only a save upon "interaction" from enemies, means your allies likely see through it while your enemies are effectively blinded)
19. A line of archers rising up from cover while your fighter makes an Intimidate check.
20. A mirror you hold up that reflects everything before you except the man you want to frame for being a vampire.
21. A reflection in a mirror of a vampire you're trying to keep from being detected.
22. Combined with darkvision, a scene lit by an illusory torch's light which matches the truth of the room closely, but leaves out details you don't want known. Maybe the room is made to look more opulent than it really is, or you leave the presence of your fellow party-members out of it so they can be "invisible." Only works against those who lack darkvision, of course. (You need darkvision to be able to see what you're overlaying)
23. You, fleeing past the place you hid as soon as you rounded a corner while trying to escape pursuit.
24. A "secret door" closing just as people turn to look at it, apparently becoming flush with the wall.
25.Mold on the wares of a stall merchant you wish to trick into selling you his goods for cheap. Or on a competitor's perishable goods.
26. Caltrops. Caltrops everywhere. So when they start treating them like illusions, you can scatter real ones they won't even try to dodge.
edit: Added numbers. Sorry for forgetting to!Last edited by Segev; 2014-09-30 at 02:29 PM.
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27. Illusion of a horribly mangled corpse somewhere halfway through a long hallway. Makes your party waste a bit of time as they let the rogue take 20 on all search checks for the whole length.
28. Then, as they discover the corpse is an illusion, the second half is actually trapped.Last edited by Inevitability; 2014-10-04 at 12:58 AM.
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29. Team America Secret Signal.
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30. Entries in this thread between 19 and 28, apparently.
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31. A holographic GUI for a magic item.
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I believe you need to use a Glamer for these effects, such as the Mirage Arcana spell. A Figment can't subtract features from an area; it can only add them. Creating an open door means subtracting part of the wall, and creating an open pit means subtracting part of the floor. Only a Glamer can do that.
According to a strict reading of the RAW, the Silent Image spell can create only one "object, creature, or force," not several of them. This would disqualify several proposals on this thread, assuming that we're using 3.5 rules. However, I choose to interpret the Silent Image spell's description more loosely, so that you can create any number of objects, creatures, or forces within the spatial limits of the spell.
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Mind fixing the number system?
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I'd at least interpret it to allow for "a single unit," even if that unit is not contiguous as a singular physical being. Otherwise, you'd have a hard time justifying "clothes" and "items" worn or wielded by illusions of people. Also, things like the "line of archers" could be still done; they'd just have an illusion of ground connecting them and "really" be an illusion of a shapeshifting creature flush with the ground protruding archer-shaped pseudopods. Which is silly, so just allow "a unit of archers."
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I agree with your reasoning. It's an illusion we're talking about, so really we're not creating any creature, object, or force at all; we're only creating creature-like, object-like, or force-like illusory effects. There shouldn't be any numeric limit to these effects, only the spatial one given in the spell's statistics block.
I feel like a poor sport for not proposing my own use of the Silent Image spell: Pretend to summon a raucously noisy creature inside the area of a Silence spell.
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47. Being charged by some horsemen, make a line of pikemen appear. Now the riders will be suspicious, but horses are dumb.
48. There is a plank across the chasm, it's a bit wobbly.
49. There's a rope hanging out of the window.π = 4
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50. Illusory repair. After your half-orc barbarian has broken down a door (that is, torn it completely off its hinges), create an illusory replica in its place, so that nobody knows the place has been broken into.
And along these lines:
51. Create an illusory object in place of a real object that has been stolen, so that nobody notices that it has been stolen.Last edited by Duke of Urrel; 2014-09-30 at 03:35 PM.
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52. Grab a small but important item and throw an illusory version of it into tall grass, a stream, or some other terrain feature which would be tricky to search for such an object.
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A tall bright red pillar that can be seen from far away.
Writing on a wall, or changing writing that is already on a wall.
Yourself, but in armor and with weapons (or a robe and staff).
A jeweled golden necklace hanging from a cliffside, to bait people into going to get it.
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59. A wizard getting ready to cast Silent Silent Image.