For the second level spell Phantasmal Force which has become one of my bard's favorite spells, several questions have come up.
if the phantam is an attacker, and the creature moves away from the cast area .... does the attacker move with it? or has it basically just escaped the spell?
is the effected creature capable of ignoring the attacker if it doesn't see it as a threat? or does it have to make the int saving throw to figure out its fake.
I have a feeling the table is making this second level spell way more powerful than it actually is.
It doesn't move from its location. However, it should still treat it as though it believes it to be a living creature, and although the Phantasmal Force can't actually, say... get an attack of opportunity, the target should still act as though it believes that it will. So if it wants to leave the area of the PF, it would waste its action to disengage, unless it's faced with some greater threat that would justify risking an AOO. Without passing the INT saving throw, the only reason it would stop considering the PF to be a threat would be if something obviously more dangerous took priority.
I was in a game where someone used PF a lot, and an orc was having a particularly rough time fighting it. However, he tried to use it as cover to start shooting at the orc... and the orc, already frustrated at being unable to hit this armored knight, decided to say screw it and at least try to smash the puny wizard flinging firebolts at it. The DM didn't have it just ignore the "knight", but it did eventually find a logical reason to prioritize something else, since the wizard was dealing more damage to it than the knight appeared to.
For the second level spell Phantasmal Force which has become one of my bard's favorite spells, several questions have come up.
I have a feeling the table is making this second level spell way more powerful than it actually is.
It doesn't move from its location. However, it should still treat it as though it believes it to be a living creature, and although the Phantasmal Force can't actually, say... get an attack of opportunity, the target should still act as though it believes that it will. So if it wants to leave the area of the PF, it would waste its action to disengage, unless it's faced with some greater threat that would justify risking an AOO. Without passing the INT saving throw, the only reason it would stop considering the PF to be a threat would be if something obviously more dangerous took priority.
I was in a game where someone used PF a lot, and an orc was having a particularly rough time fighting it. However, he tried to use it as cover to start shooting at the orc... and the orc, already frustrated at being unable to hit this armored knight, decided to say screw it and at least try to smash the puny wizard flinging firebolts at it. The DM didn't have it just ignore the "knight", but it did eventually find a logical reason to prioritize something else, since the wizard was dealing more damage to it than the knight appeared to.
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