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You know what, no. Fuck this bigot. Let’s not bend over backwards to accommodate his hatred and ignorance.

You should have the same guard come back at the end to arrest the party, like the end of the Holy Grail.

This is one of the issues I have with going from 3.5 to 5e. In trying to simplify the rules, they have left out details that make it ambiguous.

Here’s the text of the rule from 5:

Three illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. Until the spell ends, the duplicates move with you and mimic your actions, shifting position so it’s impossible to track which image is real. You can use your action to dismiss the illusory duplicates.

Then there is detail on how it affects attacks

Each time a creature targets you with an attack during the spell’s duration, roll a d20 to determine whether the attack instead targets one of your duplicates.

If you have three duplicates, you must roll a 6 or higher to change the attack’s target to a duplicate. With two duplicates, you must roll an 8 or higher. With one duplicate, you must roll an 11 or higher.

Then there is detail on how the duplicates defend:

A duplicate’s AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier. If an attack hits a duplicate, the duplicate is destroyed. A duplicate can be destroyed only by an attack that hits it. It ignores all other damage and effects. The spell ends when all three duplicates are destroyed.

Then the rule ends by describing how to bypass the spell.

A creature is unaffected by this spell if it can’t see, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight.

It does not say that a creature is unaffected by this spell if it is using a spell that does not use an attack roll.

Magic Missile starts with this:

You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range.

I would argue that Magic Missile relies on sight, and Mirror Image prevents you from visibly discerning which duplicate is the target. So you can’t “see” which target is the creature and which is the duplicate.

I know I’m in the minority on this topic, and I’ll always defer to whatever the DM decides. Most people feel that, since it doesn’t explicitly include non-attack targeting, that those actions ignore Mirror Image. But I prefer to play to a common sense interpretation of the spirit of the rules. Like if a teammate tries to toss a healing potion to the Wizard, but it shatters on the ground because they threw it to one of the duplicates. Or casting any divination or enchantment that relies on sight should be affected by Mirror Image, even if there is no attack roll.

That’s the logic I was extending to include applying a mirror to the target. But that’s probably too far afield from RAW.

You’re not wrong about the RAW, but it’s a point of contention for the RAI on how Mirror Image affects non-attacks that target the caster.

My feeling is that using a mirror on an enemy is like an attack for the purposes of interpreting the RAI on Mirror Image. Mirror Image only specifies what happens if the caster is attacked (the false images have a chance of being targeted instead) but there are Divination spells and some offensive spells like Magic Missile that require no attack roll. Some people interpret that to mean that those spells ignore Mirror Image, but that argument doesn’t track for me.

Anything that requires targeting an individual by sight should be affected, even if it isn’t technically an “attack” per the rules. It should be up to the DM to decide. The description of Mirror Image makes it clear that it confuses anyone who can see it, making it difficult to determine which image is the real one. It describes specifically how to calculate attacks, but it also doesn’t specifically say that non-attacks are unaffected.

If you use that interpretation, it would suggest that pointing a mirror is like targeting the character who has cast Mirror Image. You would have to roll a d20 and compare that to 6, 8, or 10 depending on the number of mirror images. Perception can’t see through Mirror Image.

You might see no reflection (which would confirm they don’t cast a reflection), or you might see the false image’s reflection (which would be ambiguous).

This all assumes you’re using a steel mirror or similar item to see the reflection. If there is a mirror in the room, you would be able to see more of the room, and presumably you’d be able to tell if the caster had a reflection by comparing the number of reflections you see to the number of duplicates in the room with you.

I suppose it depends on whether applying the mirror to a vampire with mirror image counts as an “attack.” It is an action that functions similarly to a divination spell. If the Vampire casts Mirror Image, and then you try to “target” the vampire with the mirror, there’s a chance you target one of the mirror images, and it would be visible in the mirror.

Vampires also don’t cast a shadow, and Mirror Images are identical images, so none of them would cast a shadow. So while the mirror trick might not work against a vampire who has cast Mirror Image, you would be able to use any light source, including ambient light, to check if any of the images are casting a shadow.

You ever get comfortable in bed, but you really have to pee?

Well, now I do! Jeez, thanks.

Yeah, it had recently come out, and he’s the only Robin Hood I can think of that spoke with an American accent. Many years later in 2010, Russel Crowe would portray Robin Hood with… an accent.

No, Bibi is just training to climb Mount Midoriyama 完全制覇

Nah, he said “unlike some other Robin Hoods…” emphasis added.

Planning. You have to write down every detail, and it takes time and costs money. Someone has to figure out how to manufacture ever part, estimate how many labor hours it will take, select paint colors and door handles and a billion other small things. It will require teams of people coordinating efforts around the globe and getting feedback from every stakeholder imaginable.

I understand not wanting to fund terrorists. Whether the number of terrorists in UNRWA justifies cutting off support or not is moot. We’ve done it.

But desperate people with no hope are easy recruits for terrorist organizations. If you don’t trust UNRWA, you can’t just cut off aid to the region and wipe the dust from your hands like you fixed something. It much be replaced with something.

Caring for the people in need in Gaza is not charity. It’s self defense. It is an investment in peace. Every nickel we saved in UNRWA funding is 10 dollars in war and rebuilding we have to spend later.

Also there is no such thing as a right on having cheap meat.

{Confused American Noises}?

That’s OK, neither does the World Court.

“Bird not doing enough to chop down tree where it has built its nest.”

Yeah, like you don’t get that moment back, standing on the podium while your national anthem plays.

“joint arms” dude those are called elbows.

Congressional Republicans responded, “Yes, give it back to us… uh, them. Give it back to them.”

So basically Despicable Me? Maybe with a hint of Megamind?

That’s fair, and it wasn’t my statement or my argument. I agree with you that all of Palestine is also not responsible for the actions of Hamas, nor is it reasonable to engage in genocide in response to terrorist attacks, even including rape.

No, come on. None of the blame for rape goes anywhere but the rapist. Nothing, no level of oppression, justified rape. This is something we should all be able to agree upon.