Timeline for Can an illusion be seen in a mirror?
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 4:43 | vote | accept | sptrashcan | ||
| Aug 2, 2020 at 4:43 | comment | added | sptrashcan | I was reviewing my prior activity and realized I never actually accepted an answer to this question. I'm not sure that the rules as written provide enough information to answer definitively, but as this is the only answer that was put forward, I suppose nobody else thought other opinions were worth advancing. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 14:31 | comment | added | Andrzej Doyle | (Alternatively, if the illusion doesn't have any physical presence and it's a purely mental phenomenom, then there's even less reason to think it wouldn't work. If someone's mind is tricked to generate perceptions consistent with the illusory object, then it stands to reason they would generate all the perceptions that such an object would produce - including reflections, blocking line of sight behind it, etc.) | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Andrzej Doyle | @mzg147 - that's not how mirrors work. They essentially give you a different perspective onto the same "real" scene. If an illusion would appear real when you looked at it from a point right in front of the mirror, then it must also appear real when you look at it via a reflection in that same mirror that gives the same view. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | Smart_TJ | What? No, I'm saying that one illusion is all you need for a complete visual effect, reflections and all | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | mz71 | The point is, the caster needs to create two separate copies of a illusion, one as usual, one in the mirror. So your argument says that the caster had better make two illusions, otherwise target will find out. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:38 | comment | added | Smart_TJ | But the target thinks they will, so if the illusion is to do it's job, then certain laws of physics do apply | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:26 | comment | added | mz71 | If the image is only in the target's head, then it isn't "real". So laws of physics don't apply. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:49 | comment | added | Smart_TJ | Is a view in a mirror not a depiction of what is real? The only times that it is not tend to be if the mirror is magical, or if you're dealing with vampires. So I guess if it was an illusion of a vampire then it wouldn't appear on the mirror, but other than that it would seem that it would | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:29 | comment | added | mz71 | But for the second image (in the mirror) to appear in the target's head, shouldn't the caster use the spell twice? As far as target is concerned, "real" view and view in the mirror are two different places. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 3:52 | history | edited | V2Blast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2020 at 22:42 | history | edited | Smart_TJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2020 at 21:09 | history | answered | Smart_TJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |