Illusion Damage

[Scott]

I was just scanning some news articles online and I came upon one called You Really Can Be Scared to Death (http://gma.yahoo.com/scared-death-not-just-saying-172408060--abc-news-topstories.html). I immediately associated it with the 'is illusional damage real' debate'. I always believed that it was 'real' in a HP way for just this reason.

[geneweigel]

Illusory illusions!!!

I think with me as DM and my friend Taylor with his super high illusionist we've played the illusions to death and I mean literally. He converted his character over to second edition then back again because the 2E version didn't work. Basically the illusion is for the thinking player and DM, it isn't for "the Sunday DM". Saving throws must have thinking behind them which doesn't help if you're really hammered playing with Taylor...

[geneweigel]

i noticed there was an old thread on here that had an answer from Gary in regards to illusion damage and a follow up discussion:

doomsdaygames.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=generaladd&action=display&thread=222

As an aside about illusions, I was thinking about someone using illusion tools and way back (before it fell out of thought and memory... ) certain players would use in-game miniatures for their illusions as if their was a source and I recalled seeing it somewhere over and over. Well, finally I found the source: ROGUES GALLERY. Under "Grimslade: player Harold Johnson" it says:

Some of the devices Grimslade carries Includes sealed pots of green slime and ochre jelly, rice paper pouches of
pepper, cinnamon, sand, flash powder, and sulphur, "fire seeds" of oil-soaked cotton wrapped around lead, a
dissecting kit, a globe of phosphorescent water, vials of wyvern poison and sleeping drug, a pot of hot coals, a
magnifying lens, and figurines of an umber hulk, bugbear, triton, werewolf, and gargoyle (for concentrating on when casting a phantasmal force). Presently he is trying to construct a very primitive flamethrower.

[Merkholz]

Oct 26, 2012 14:38:47 GMT -5 Scott said:

I was just scanning some news articles online and I came upon one called You Really Can Be Scared to Death (http://gma.yahoo.com/scared-death-not-just-saying-172408060--abc-news-topstories.html). I immediately associated it with the 'is illusional damage real' debate'. I always believed that it was 'real' in a HP way for just this reason.

But when a person realizes that it was just an illusion doing the damage can the same brain function that inflicted the "real" damage reverse it and in essence perform a "psionic cure"?