Talk:Project Image/@comment-49.180.79.201-20200127095052/@comment-86.253.189.21-20200201012417

If we go by AD&D 2nd edition's Player Handbook quoted below, it is IMO unclear whether the image burns the caster's spells or not. In this world, the illusion of a fireball hits like the real deal as far as I know. I don't know if there was some kind of jurisprudence on this. The spell has however other properties not implemented in BG2, such as the image being spawned invisible if the caster is invisible, the image being unaffected by attacks, or the spell allowing the caster to keep moving under certain conditions. The first difference seems like a consequence of the fact that our characters can't see the invisible, but need to see the image to sustain it. So it has to be made visible. The second and third ones are a downgrade in power.

Project Image (Alteration, Illusion/Phantasm)

Range: 10 yds./level 

Components: V, S, M [Verbal, Somatic, Material] 

Duration: 1 rd./level

 Casting Time: 6 

Area of Effect: Special

 Saving Throw: None 

By means of this spell, the wizard creates a nonmaterial duplicate of himself,  projecting it to any spot within spell range. This image performs actions decided by the <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 260.786px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00105);"> wizard--walking, speaking, spellcasting--conforming to the actual actions of the wizard <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 281.972px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00154);">unless he concentrates on making it act differently (in which case the wizard is limited to <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 303.159px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00104);">half movement and no attacks). <span style="left: 157.359px; top: 324.346px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00098);"> The image can be dispelled only by means of a successful <span style="left: 590.199px; top: 324.346px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00091);">dispel magic <span style="left: 684.176px; top: 324.346px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00111);"> spell (or upon <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 345.532px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0009);"> command from the spellcaster); attacks pass harmlessly through it. The image must be <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 367.104px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00102);"> within view of the wizard projecting it at all times, and if his sight is obstructed, the spell <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 388.291px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00096);">is broken. Note that if the wizard is invisible at the time the spell is cast, the image is also <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 409.478px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00101);">invisible until the caster's invisibility ends, though the wizard must still be able to see the <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 430.664px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00095);"> image (by means of a <span style="left: 302.654px; top: 430.664px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.985075);">detect invisibility <span style="left: 429.476px; top: 430.664px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00109);"> spell or other method) to maintain the spell. If the <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 451.851px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0007);">wizard uses <span style="left: 230.263px; top: 451.851px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00767);">dimension door, teleport, plane shift, <span style="left: 504.004px; top: 451.851px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00098);"> or a similar spell that breaks his line of <span style="left: 138.869px; top: 473.423px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00108);">vision, the <span style="left: 220.531px; top: 473.423px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01133);">project image <span style="left: 322.714px; top: 473.423px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00087);"> spell ends. <span style="left: 157.359px; top: 494.61px; font-size: 18.4902px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00102);">The material component of this spell is a small replica (doll) of the wizard.