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Description and lore
An imagined image or simple sound occupies an otherwise ordinary place.
Phantasm makes an empty corner worth a second look, setting expectation against observation.
A convincing detail can be small: a familiar silhouette, an apparent discarded cloak, a sound just where one expects it.
At a glance
An imagined image or simple sound occupies an otherwise ordinary place.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Crafting. Affinity: Intellect. Requirements: Intellect d6; Crafting d6. one learned slot.
Use: Action · 30 feet · one 5-foot space the caster can see, perceived by creatures with the relevant sense · Persistent · 1 Mana
Effect - Resolution: Crafting + Intellect versus Perception + Intellect for each observer whose decision depends on the image or sound.
Effect - Defense: Perception + Intellect; defender wins ties; physical contradiction exposes that the phenomenon is false to a creature that detects the contradiction.
Effect: create one stationary visual image or simple sound. It cannot inflict damage, block a path, issue an irresistible command, mimic a full conversation, or conceal a real hazard. On a successful defense the observer recognizes the false impression.
Duration: up to 1 minute, ending if the caster becomes incapacitated.
Ending or recovery: no special cooldown.
Exception: use each observer’s own legal contest; an ally’s warning gives the warned observer a new Perception + Intellect attempt when it can examine the effect.
An imagined sight takes shape in the waking world.
A motionless cloaked shape seems to wait at the far end of the passage.