Project Image

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Utility

Project Image is a Utility spell. Utility spells solve problems outside of combat or provide unique situational advantages.

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 spell that projects your likeness anywhere you've been, letting you scout, speak, and watch from afar with
remote senses

Project Image is a Information spell. Information spells provide ways to transmit, perceive, detect, or reveal hidden or unknown information.

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swift repositioning

Project Image is a Action Economy spell. Action Economy spells grant you more choices on future turns.

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2024 Rules
Level & School
7th-level illusion
Casting Time
Action
Range
500 miles
Components
V, S, M (a statuette of yourself worth 5+ GP)
Duration
Concentration, up to 1 day
Classes
Bard, Wizard

You create an illusory copy of yourself that lasts for the duration. The copy can appear at any location within range that you have seen before, regardless of intervening obstacles. The illusion looks and sounds like you, but it is intangible. If the illusion takes any damage, it disappears, and the spell ends.

You can see through the illusion's eyes and hear through its ears as if you were in its space. As a Magic action, you can move it up to 60 feet and make it gesture, speak, and behave in whatever way you choose. It mimics your mannerisms perfectly.

Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be illusory, since things can pass through it. A creature that takes the Study action to examine the image can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the creature can see through the image, and any noise it makes sounds hollow to the creature.

2014 Rules
Level & School
7th-level illusion
Casting Time
Action
Range
500 miles
Components
V, S, M (a small replica of you made from materials worth at least 5 gp)
Duration
Concentration, 1 day
Classes
Bard, Wizard

You create an illusory copy of yourself that lasts for the duration. The copy can appear at any location within range that you have seen before, regardless of intervening obstacles. The illusion looks and sounds like you but is intangible. If the illusion takes any damage, it disappears, and the spell ends.

You can use your action to move this illusion up to twice your speed, and make it gesture, speak, and behave in whatever way you choose. It mimics your mannerisms perfectly.

You can see through its eyes and hear through its ears as if you were in its space. On your turn as a bonus action, you can switch from using its senses to using your own, or back again. While you are using its senses, you are blinded and deafened in regard to your own surroundings.

Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it. A

creature that uses its action to examine the image can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the creature can see through the image, and any noise it makes sounds hollow to the creature.

Project Image 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

You can no longer switch between your senses and the image’s senses as a bonus action; that option was removed. Also, the image now has to be examined with the Study action instead of an action, but that’s the same mechanically under these rules.

Spells similar to Project Image

  • Mislead 5th-level illusion

    It creates a controllable illusory double tied to the caster and trades sensory perspective between you and that double in much the same way.

  • Arcane Eye 4th-level divination

    Both let you send your senses to a remote location and scout ahead without physically being there, making them natural alternatives for reconnaissance.

  • Scrying 5th-level divination

    This spell shares the long-range observation role and is chosen for gathering information from far away rather than direct physical interaction.

  • Major Image 3rd-level illusion

    Major Image is a lower-level version of creating a realistic, controllable illusion and is used the same way for deception and scene manipulation.

  • Programmed Illusion 6th-level illusion

    It offers a preconfigured, longer-lasting illusion with complex behavior, so players pick it for planned tricks similar to what you can do with an image.