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Tricks for an illusionist? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 hours ago by copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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I'm about to play a gnome illusion wizard and I'm researching (high INT!) creative uses for illusions.

A classic is an illusory wall to hide behind as enemies run past or cannot aim to you. Or make the pit seem to be somewhere else so they fall in as they charge you. Or fake allies for distraction.

We're playing Pathfinder 2e as 1st level characters. So technically that means the wizard has Figment (Ghost Sound), Illusory Object, and Prestidigitation at his disposal.

There are probably some cool illusion stories in this community?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Are you just listing the illusion spells you will have as you should have quite a bit more and its easy to get a few more than that as a gnome.

[–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

PF2e? Heighten it to Level 2 and cast Illusory Wall of Fire. It generates heat, sound, and light just like a real wall of fire! It just deals 0 damage. Your allies can move through it without giving up the game if their acting is good, and if you give a path through (no matter how lousy,) enemies are more inclined to go where you want them instead disbelieving by risking a pass through. Illusory Aqueous Orb is pretty for more localized area denial.

At lvl 1, Illusory wall of stone is a little less impressive but can be funny if you time it right. Delay until just before an archer or wizard's turn and box them off to force them to spend actions either moving or disbelieving.

Other fake persistent spells can potentially work out, though i think the real tech starts once you're lv 3 and get access to heightened illusory object & Illusory creature.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago

I think it'd be very cool if they approached challenges like a hacker.

Instead of just tricking a target with a direct approach, use illusions to trick targets into helping them trick secondary targets.

Surveil a target to find out what a family member's voice sounds like in order to imitate it.

Use an illusory object to feign that you've taken something to bait someone into an over reaction that gets them in trouble.

That kind of manipulation.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Prestidigitation

The most powerful illusory cantrip ever.