UA6 Invoke Duplicity

Invoke Duplicity from the 2014 D&D rulebooks is not great, and Larian replaced it with a homebrewed version which is situationally better but much less interesting.

Playtest 6 of the 2024 Core Rulebooks for D&D overhauled the Trickery domain for Clerics, including making big improvements to Invoke Duplicity. This mod replaces BG3's homebrew Invoke Duplicity with a faithful representation of the playtest version, taking some inspiration from Echo Knight to fill the gaps in the description.

(The final version of the 2024 rules nerfed Invoke Duplicity from the playtest, though still leaving it much better than in 2014. This mod will stick with the playtest version.)

Recommended to be used with UA8 Healing Buffs for more viable healing on non-Life Clerics, especially when casting Cure Wounds at range via the duplicate.

Invoke Duplicity

You can use your Channel Divinity to create an illusory duplicate of yourself.

As a Bonus Action, you can expend one use of your Channel Divinity to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see, and you create a perfect visual illusion of yourself in the space you left. The illusion lasts for 1 minute, but it ends early if you have the Incapacitated condition or dismiss it as a Bonus Action.

While the illusion persists, you gain the following benefits:

Cast Spells. You can cast spells as though you were in the illusion’s space, but you must use your own senses.

Distract. When both you and your illusion are within 5 feet of a creature that can see the illusion, you have Advantage on attack rolls against that creature, given how distracting the illusion is to the target.

Move. As a Bonus Action, you can move the illusion up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is within 120 feet of yourself, and you can then teleport, swapping places with the illusion.

* Nature of the illusion

As a visual illusion, it does not affect creatures that are blinded or have Blindsight or Truesight. Attacks against such creatures will not gain advantage from the Distract feature, and they will themselves not attack the illusion or be less likely to attack the Cleric.

Illusions are tricky in D&D as there are hardly any rules describing how they work, leaving them up to DM interpretation. Since there's no listed way for enemies to destroy or disbelieve this illusion, my main concern was making sure it can't be used as an invulnerable tank... but that turned out not to be an issue as the AI is extremely reluctant to attack it and almost had to be forced to do so.[/