Timeline for Can a Minor Illusion block light?
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| Jun 23 at 0:47 | comment | added | Zimul8r | However, if all it is doing is altering perceptions, then it would make sense that when successfully disbelieved, your personal perception changes. It looks "faint" to you, not because the spell has started letting more light through, but because the spell was never actually blocking light to begin with. It was just screwing with your eyes/mind | |
| Jun 23 at 0:44 | comment | added | Zimul8r | Illusion magic could work by altering the world, and if so then it would logically follow that a spell that hid something from sight would be blocking actual light. But, then it would follow that how it looks wouldn't likely change from one person to another based on belief. Rather, the non-believer would notice details that contradicted what they were seeing, which would allow them to disbelieve successfully. | |
| Jun 21 at 21:31 | comment | added | TREB | Zim, what is perception if not how light is actually affected? | |
| Jun 21 at 21:05 | comment | added | Zimul8r | But its not actually translucent, it is "faint to the creature", which means it only appears translucent to the observer, but nothing in the spell description indicates that any actual light is affected, just your perception. | |
| Jun 13 at 22:45 | comment | added | TREB | Even being translucent means it is blocking some light, just not all of it. If something is both transparent and doesn't even refract light then it is totally invisible. | |
| May 3, 2020 at 19:06 | history | answered | Zimul8r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |