"If the creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn't have line of sight to you, the creature can make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the spell ends for that creature."
This makes me think that the vision of the my person is what continues the fear - so can I use an illusion of me to prevent a saving throw and continue the fear effect? I could, say, create a silent image of myself levitating in the air looking extremely menacing - would this be enough for my frightened victims to continue to have "line of sight" of me given they have no reason to think it isn't me (let's assume I'm behind cover and otherwise not in line of sight).
EDIT: Oh I just realised, they'd both be concentration spells - so I couldn't do silent image but someone else in my party could instead, could this work?
RAW an illusion of you is not you so a creature that is frightened of you - this is especially important since the Fear spell specifies "you" as the source of the fear - would suffer no effect if you were out of line of sight but an illusion of you was within line of sight.
Basically, the illusion of you is not the source of the fear, you are.
I think it's worth mentioning that there are illusions specifically designed to cause fear, and that the fear spell itself is actually one of them, so in general a creature cannot be frightened or kept afraid by an illusion unless it says so.
Of course your DM is always free to rule otherwise in the moment, but fear is already pretty good; if it takes effect then it forces an enemy to waste a full turn before they can even attempt another save, and they can't even do that if they can still see the real you; in an open environment or an area with only low cover, you could be looking at multiple enemies losing multiple turns, which is a big upgrade over the lower level cause fear.
I applaud the ingenuity in trying to find a way to prolong it of course (always be thinking of creative uses of spells, it's 99% of the game for me as a caster) but I think fear is plenty as it is.
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I would allow it if the creature is scared of you, and it thinks it is looking at you. But since this is the rules subforum, I have to say such an exercise is not something the condition description provides.
Looking at the fear spell specifically:
"If the creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn't have line of sight to you, the creature can make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the spell ends for that creature."
This makes me think that the vision of the my person is what continues the fear - so can I use an illusion of me to prevent a saving throw and continue the fear effect? I could, say, create a silent image of myself levitating in the air looking extremely menacing - would this be enough for my frightened victims to continue to have "line of sight" of me given they have no reason to think it isn't me (let's assume I'm behind cover and otherwise not in line of sight).
EDIT: Oh I just realised, they'd both be concentration spells - so I couldn't do silent image but someone else in my party could instead, could this work?
RAW an illusion of you is not you so a creature that is frightened of you - this is especially important since the Fear spell specifies "you" as the source of the fear - would suffer no effect if you were out of line of sight but an illusion of you was within line of sight.
Basically, the illusion of you is not the source of the fear, you are.
I think it's worth mentioning that there are illusions specifically designed to cause fear, and that the fear spell itself is actually one of them, so in general a creature cannot be frightened or kept afraid by an illusion unless it says so.
Of course your DM is always free to rule otherwise in the moment, but fear is already pretty good; if it takes effect then it forces an enemy to waste a full turn before they can even attempt another save, and they can't even do that if they can still see the real you; in an open environment or an area with only low cover, you could be looking at multiple enemies losing multiple turns, which is a big upgrade over the lower level cause fear.
I applaud the ingenuity in trying to find a way to prolong it of course (always be thinking of creative uses of spells, it's 99% of the game for me as a caster) but I think fear is plenty as it is.
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If you had created an illusion of a Mirror, I would find it more convincing. But I do not think even that would work.
But you have made me think of a new tactic for the Creation Bard (that can create actual mirrors....)
I would allow it if the creature is scared of you, and it thinks it is looking at you. But since this is the rules subforum, I have to say such an exercise is not something the condition description provides.
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