[RPG] What happens when you use a projected image to cast a teleportation spell on another creature

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The spell Project Image creates a shadowy duplicate that the caster can use to deliver spells.

If you desire, any spell you cast whose range is touch or greater can originate from the projected image instead of from you. The projected image can't cast any spells on itself except for illusion spells. The spells affect other targets normally, despite originating from the projected image.

If the caster loses line of effect by teleportation, then the spell ends.

If you use dimension door, teleport, plane shift, or a similar spell that breaks your line of effect, even momentarily, the spell ends.

What happens if, using the shadowy duplicate as the spell's origin, you cast a teleportation spell that targets other creatures? Does the Project Image effect end immediately, thereby preventing the teleportation effect from happening? Or does the teleportation effect happen first, and then the image goes away?

Example:

Bob the barbarian is in melee combat, and in trouble. Alice the wizard is a safe distance away, and she sends her shadowy duplicate over to him. On Alice's next turn, she casts Dimension Door from the projected image, in attempt to touch Bob and bring him to Alice's location.

Does the projected image immediately disappear, leaving Bob stranded in the front lines? Or, does the image disappear once the Dimension Door has taken effect, i.e., once Bob has been teleported to Alice's location?

Best Answer

The image can't cast dimension door.

One of the lines of project image that you've listed says "The projected image can't cast any spells on itself except for illusion spells." Dimension door has a Target of "you and touched objects or other touched willing creatures". Ergo, since dimension door has a Target of "you", and isn't an illusion spell, Alice can't cast it through her image.

Since dimension door always teleports the caster as well as possibly teleporting another target, the correct way to interpret the admittedly-ambiguous phrasing "you and touched objects or other touched willing creatures" is "You. Additionally, touched objects or creatures." There is no way to cast dimension door in a way that doesn't affect "you", so it will always have a target of "you", and thus be un-castable by a projected image.

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