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If you create an image of an object - such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest - it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the object reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.




You could create an illusory fog cloud in a 5-foot cube. However, things pass through real fog clouds just as easily as through an illusion. So how exactly does "things passing through it" reveal an illusory fog cloud to be illusory?










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If you create an image of an object - such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest - it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the object reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.




You could create an illusory fog cloud in a 5-foot cube. However, things pass through real fog clouds just as easily as through an illusion. So how exactly does "things passing through it" reveal an illusory fog cloud to be illusory?










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If you create an image of an object - such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest - it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the object reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.




You could create an illusory fog cloud in a 5-foot cube. However, things pass through real fog clouds just as easily as through an illusion. So how exactly does "things passing through it" reveal an illusory fog cloud to be illusory?










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If you create an image of an object - such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest - it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the object reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.




You could create an illusory fog cloud in a 5-foot cube. However, things pass through real fog clouds just as easily as through an illusion. So how exactly does "things passing through it" reveal an illusory fog cloud to be illusory?







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Fog Isn't An Object



As has been stated elsewhere, gasses and liquids are not considered objects. So fog would not be a valid image created by Minor Illusion.



There could be some edge cases where physical inspection might not reveal an illusion (for example, an illusion of a brick in a wall painted green, cast a nanometer in front of a real brick in a wall painted red, that would feel the same to a person investigating it), and a DM would have to decide whether to ignore that part of the spell's description. However, creating illusions of intangible things would normally be impossible with minor illusion.



NOTE: If the spell in question had been silent image (which contains similar text about physically interacting with the illusion, but allows the spell to create most any "visual phenomenon"), then see Ryan Thompson's answer on how physical interaction could still reveal illusory fog.






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    But a "bowl of water" works, so wouldn't a "5-foot cube box with walls of 'perfect' glass with fog in the middle" work as well then leaving the same problem anyway?
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  • Feel free to pitch that to your DM. My take on it would be that you haven't created "the image of an object" if the "object" part of your illusion is invisible.
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    Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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Real fog still interacts visibly with things passing through it



If you pass your hand through a real cloud of fog, the fog will visibly flow around your hand, and the air current produced by your hand will cause the fog to swirl around after your hand passes through it. An inanimate illusory cloud of fog will not exhibit any of these effects, revealing it as fake. In addition, depending on what the fog is made of, it may have other associated sensory effects, such as dampness or coolness, none of which can be replicated by minor illusion.






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    Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
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  • @guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
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  • Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
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  • @PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
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    @PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
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In my experience of fog, you can see it a ways away but as you near fog, you realize that there is no point in time that the fog fully obfuscates your ability to see. So if you were to walk up to and into illusory fog, it would continue to block your sight. REAL fog doesn't.



So being aware that real fog doesn't block sight as well as fake fog would, you would realize that it is an illusion, and thus, see through it.



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  • This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
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Fog Isn't An Object



As has been stated elsewhere, gasses and liquids are not considered objects. So fog would not be a valid image created by Minor Illusion.



There could be some edge cases where physical inspection might not reveal an illusion (for example, an illusion of a brick in a wall painted green, cast a nanometer in front of a real brick in a wall painted red, that would feel the same to a person investigating it), and a DM would have to decide whether to ignore that part of the spell's description. However, creating illusions of intangible things would normally be impossible with minor illusion.



NOTE: If the spell in question had been silent image (which contains similar text about physically interacting with the illusion, but allows the spell to create most any "visual phenomenon"), then see Ryan Thompson's answer on how physical interaction could still reveal illusory fog.






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    But a "bowl of water" works, so wouldn't a "5-foot cube box with walls of 'perfect' glass with fog in the middle" work as well then leaving the same problem anyway?
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  • Feel free to pitch that to your DM. My take on it would be that you haven't created "the image of an object" if the "object" part of your illusion is invisible.
    – Gandalfmeansme
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    Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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Fog Isn't An Object



As has been stated elsewhere, gasses and liquids are not considered objects. So fog would not be a valid image created by Minor Illusion.



There could be some edge cases where physical inspection might not reveal an illusion (for example, an illusion of a brick in a wall painted green, cast a nanometer in front of a real brick in a wall painted red, that would feel the same to a person investigating it), and a DM would have to decide whether to ignore that part of the spell's description. However, creating illusions of intangible things would normally be impossible with minor illusion.



NOTE: If the spell in question had been silent image (which contains similar text about physically interacting with the illusion, but allows the spell to create most any "visual phenomenon"), then see Ryan Thompson's answer on how physical interaction could still reveal illusory fog.






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    But a "bowl of water" works, so wouldn't a "5-foot cube box with walls of 'perfect' glass with fog in the middle" work as well then leaving the same problem anyway?
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  • Feel free to pitch that to your DM. My take on it would be that you haven't created "the image of an object" if the "object" part of your illusion is invisible.
    – Gandalfmeansme
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    Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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Fog Isn't An Object



As has been stated elsewhere, gasses and liquids are not considered objects. So fog would not be a valid image created by Minor Illusion.



There could be some edge cases where physical inspection might not reveal an illusion (for example, an illusion of a brick in a wall painted green, cast a nanometer in front of a real brick in a wall painted red, that would feel the same to a person investigating it), and a DM would have to decide whether to ignore that part of the spell's description. However, creating illusions of intangible things would normally be impossible with minor illusion.



NOTE: If the spell in question had been silent image (which contains similar text about physically interacting with the illusion, but allows the spell to create most any "visual phenomenon"), then see Ryan Thompson's answer on how physical interaction could still reveal illusory fog.






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Fog Isn't An Object



As has been stated elsewhere, gasses and liquids are not considered objects. So fog would not be a valid image created by Minor Illusion.



There could be some edge cases where physical inspection might not reveal an illusion (for example, an illusion of a brick in a wall painted green, cast a nanometer in front of a real brick in a wall painted red, that would feel the same to a person investigating it), and a DM would have to decide whether to ignore that part of the spell's description. However, creating illusions of intangible things would normally be impossible with minor illusion.



NOTE: If the spell in question had been silent image (which contains similar text about physically interacting with the illusion, but allows the spell to create most any "visual phenomenon"), then see Ryan Thompson's answer on how physical interaction could still reveal illusory fog.







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    But a "bowl of water" works, so wouldn't a "5-foot cube box with walls of 'perfect' glass with fog in the middle" work as well then leaving the same problem anyway?
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    Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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    But a "bowl of water" works, so wouldn't a "5-foot cube box with walls of 'perfect' glass with fog in the middle" work as well then leaving the same problem anyway?
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    Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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But a "bowl of water" works, so wouldn't a "5-foot cube box with walls of 'perfect' glass with fog in the middle" work as well then leaving the same problem anyway?
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Feel free to pitch that to your DM. My take on it would be that you haven't created "the image of an object" if the "object" part of your illusion is invisible.
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Feel free to pitch that to your DM. My take on it would be that you haven't created "the image of an object" if the "object" part of your illusion is invisible.
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Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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Also, according to the DMG p. 246, "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete. inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." The 5-foot cube box you described is an object (though it has no "image"), but as the mist is not contiguous within it, it's hard to argue that the box and mist combo is "discrete." (You could make it not a box but a strange undulating mass of glass, or a solid statue of foggy crystal: but in those cases it would be surprising that a hand passed through it).
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Real fog still interacts visibly with things passing through it



If you pass your hand through a real cloud of fog, the fog will visibly flow around your hand, and the air current produced by your hand will cause the fog to swirl around after your hand passes through it. An inanimate illusory cloud of fog will not exhibit any of these effects, revealing it as fake. In addition, depending on what the fog is made of, it may have other associated sensory effects, such as dampness or coolness, none of which can be replicated by minor illusion.






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    Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
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  • @guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
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  • Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
    – Pink Sweetener
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  • @PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
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    @PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
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Real fog still interacts visibly with things passing through it



If you pass your hand through a real cloud of fog, the fog will visibly flow around your hand, and the air current produced by your hand will cause the fog to swirl around after your hand passes through it. An inanimate illusory cloud of fog will not exhibit any of these effects, revealing it as fake. In addition, depending on what the fog is made of, it may have other associated sensory effects, such as dampness or coolness, none of which can be replicated by minor illusion.






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    Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
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  • @guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
    – Ryan Thompson
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  • Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
    – Pink Sweetener
    21 hours ago










  • @PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
    – Ryan Thompson
    21 hours ago






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    @PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
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Real fog still interacts visibly with things passing through it



If you pass your hand through a real cloud of fog, the fog will visibly flow around your hand, and the air current produced by your hand will cause the fog to swirl around after your hand passes through it. An inanimate illusory cloud of fog will not exhibit any of these effects, revealing it as fake. In addition, depending on what the fog is made of, it may have other associated sensory effects, such as dampness or coolness, none of which can be replicated by minor illusion.






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Real fog still interacts visibly with things passing through it



If you pass your hand through a real cloud of fog, the fog will visibly flow around your hand, and the air current produced by your hand will cause the fog to swirl around after your hand passes through it. An inanimate illusory cloud of fog will not exhibit any of these effects, revealing it as fake. In addition, depending on what the fog is made of, it may have other associated sensory effects, such as dampness or coolness, none of which can be replicated by minor illusion.







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    Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
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  • @guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
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  • Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
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  • @PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
    – Ryan Thompson
    21 hours ago






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    @PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
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    Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
    – guildsbounty
    21 hours ago












  • @guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
    – Ryan Thompson
    21 hours ago










  • Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
    – Pink Sweetener
    21 hours ago










  • @PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
    – Ryan Thompson
    21 hours ago






  • 2




    @PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
    – Gandalfmeansme
    21 hours ago








1




1




Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
– guildsbounty
21 hours ago






Also, fog is (usually) made of water. It usually has a cooler temperature to come into contact with it and can leave you slightly damp.
– guildsbounty
21 hours ago














@guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
– Ryan Thompson
21 hours ago




@guildsbounty That's a good point. I'll add that as well.
– Ryan Thompson
21 hours ago












Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
– Pink Sweetener
21 hours ago




Fog machine fog works that way, but real fog? I'm not so sure about that.
– Pink Sweetener
21 hours ago












@PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
– Ryan Thompson
21 hours ago




@PinkSweetener A cloud of fog contained within a 5-foot cube is more like the product of a fog machine than ambient fog.
– Ryan Thompson
21 hours ago




2




2




@PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
– Gandalfmeansme
21 hours ago




@PinkSweetener Real fog would work that way too: but real fog is usually surrounded by a much larger quantity of other real fog, that fills in the air when you displace fog by moving your hand through it. So it is usually not a visible event. However, a 5' cube of "fog" (if it could be created by this spell) would appear odd by not shifting with your movement.
– Gandalfmeansme
21 hours ago










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In my experience of fog, you can see it a ways away but as you near fog, you realize that there is no point in time that the fog fully obfuscates your ability to see. So if you were to walk up to and into illusory fog, it would continue to block your sight. REAL fog doesn't.



So being aware that real fog doesn't block sight as well as fake fog would, you would realize that it is an illusion, and thus, see through it.



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  • This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
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In my experience of fog, you can see it a ways away but as you near fog, you realize that there is no point in time that the fog fully obfuscates your ability to see. So if you were to walk up to and into illusory fog, it would continue to block your sight. REAL fog doesn't.



So being aware that real fog doesn't block sight as well as fake fog would, you would realize that it is an illusion, and thus, see through it.



Pun intended.






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  • This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
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    13 hours ago













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In my experience of fog, you can see it a ways away but as you near fog, you realize that there is no point in time that the fog fully obfuscates your ability to see. So if you were to walk up to and into illusory fog, it would continue to block your sight. REAL fog doesn't.



So being aware that real fog doesn't block sight as well as fake fog would, you would realize that it is an illusion, and thus, see through it.



Pun intended.






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In my experience of fog, you can see it a ways away but as you near fog, you realize that there is no point in time that the fog fully obfuscates your ability to see. So if you were to walk up to and into illusory fog, it would continue to block your sight. REAL fog doesn't.



So being aware that real fog doesn't block sight as well as fake fog would, you would realize that it is an illusion, and thus, see through it.



Pun intended.







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  • This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
    – Gandalfmeansme
    13 hours ago


















  • This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
    – Gandalfmeansme
    13 hours ago
















This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
– Gandalfmeansme
13 hours ago




This idea is somewhat complicated by the conjuration spell fog cloud, which creates fog that heavily obscures an area. If you ran into fog that obscured your sight, you might conclude it was actually there, but the result of a different spell.
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