I agree 100% with this approach to handling illusions in D&D.

I used to hate this kind of game for how kingmakery they are. But these days a lot of boardgaming is dominated by games that are just as kingmakery, but also:

• Overly complicated, with rules that would’ve made more sense as an unpolished MS-DOS game of a magazine cover floppy in the pre-CD era than a board game
• Surly and isolationist, with individual player boards that makes it feel more like we’re all playing on separate boards than on one board game
• Ameri/Euro hybrids that bring all the tedium from eurogames but all the violence and hurting each other from American Thematic games
• Bogged down with a thousand special cards and special powers that makes the game feel more like playing Magic than a board game
• A lot of the variety comes from expansions and special cards instead of emergent combinations of fewer, more versatile components

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