>>>> I just want to remind you that Illusions are REAL. An Illusion is
>>>> a Temporary reality, not a false or unreal thing. They are not
>>>> mind tricks, they are not hypnosis or hallucination. They are
>>>> temporary reality.
> Which begs the question : what would one call a Gloranthan magician
> who used mind tricks/hypnosis/hallucination/Light powers/Smoke
> and Mirrors/whatever to create false and unreal things that disappeared
> with a wave of the hand, a gust of wind, etc ?
>
> (apart from "Trickster", that is)
"Imagist" maybe ?
>> In that sense, Simon, "it is possible to 'spoof' a magical sense with a
>> sufficiently sophisticated illusion."
>
> Hurrrmmmm :
>
> OK
>
> An Illusionist gives me a bowl of soup, and I start eating it. Yummy !
>
> Suddenly, some smart-alec in dark sunglasses appears, and tells me :
> "There is no spoon"
>
> "Do I have soup on my t-shirt ?" is obviously (or not-so-obviously) a
> game question more than a Gloranthan one, but the pertinence of the
> question does seem to indicate that the weaker, at least, of Gloranthan
> Illusions are more like their D&D counterparts than you're suggesting.
The tricky point is that there is a spoon ! But this magical creation can be
more or less "complete". I'll take three exemples :
- the illusory spoon is only visual : you can't touch it, and it's the
illusionist that make it move, not you...
- the temporary reality is extended to the tactile realm. If the magic is
powerful enough you can grab it and it won't leak. Even if you know it's a
magical construct that won't last, you can use it as the more permanent
tool. You may even have a "touch-only" spoon, with no visual presence at all
!
- as 2) but the mage was lazzy or low on juice. It will probalby look like
a glass spoon and feel weird to the touch, and may be be "porous", leaking
soup through it's not-so-solid presence.
No matter how hard you disbelieve the illusion it stays there. Consider a
visual-only illusory gloranthan wall. Even if you walk through (and realize
it's not a "real" wall), the image is still here, and you can't see what's
behind it, where the D&D wall willl vanish (but only for you).
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