You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear heavier or lighter. You must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs as you have. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.

  • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    27 days ago

    Every RPG group I have ever been with has used either a magic item or spell to make change purely for cosmetic reasons. This is true regardless of gender and how power gaming the group is. The Cloak of Billowing is a 5e item favorite and is usually requested at item creation or in the first magic shop. I do want to get Mask of Many Faces just for fancy dress on my next character now.

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      26 days ago

      Personally, I’m a big fan of the ‘useless magic item’ and try to get one to each of my players. Lots of them are cosmetic: helmets with glowing eyes, cloak of billowing, squeaky shoes. Sometimes they’re just weird, like the wand of create wand which is a one-charge wand that crumbles to dust after being used to make a wand of create wand

  • quigat@lemm.ee
    13·
    27 days ago

    Does the 1 foot rule apply with or without the hat? I see potential for rules lawyering here.

    • _bcron@midwest.socialEnglish
      14·
      27 days ago

      If a Halfling wants to abuse this to ‘hide inside an upside-down bucket’ I think the Halfling deserves to become a bucket

    • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
      13·
      26 days ago

      Yeah, it’s ambiguous. I interpret the “you can be one foot taller or shorter” to mean you, and something like a hat or ridiculous hair can just be as large as you like so long as it still looks like an item of clothing and not (say) a billboard.

      Of course, at very large sizes, something’s going to clip into the illusion every now and then, so it’ll obviously be an illusion to anyone who is around it for more than a few minutes. I’m imagining small birds trying to land on it and faceplanting into your head.