Glass Doppelganger HD Limit

[J3456789]

Can you change the HD limit for the spell Glass Doppelganger to 'creatures with more HD than the caster are immune' instead of 15 HD limit please?
It's already way weaker than Shadow Simulacrum, the HD limit makes it useless.

The duration is 6 seconds per caster level, you're not going to a level 15 area then running to where you want to be.

There are way too many broken or useless spells; we need more worthwhile choices.
You raised the damage cap on many spells like Magic Missle so they could be used at later levels, this would continue that trend.

[Sun Wukong]

I think you should raise the cap of the spell to 30. (And add Shadow Simulacrum boss limitations.)

[Valefort]

How about .. removing the cap for being able to copy but deleveling the copied creature to level 15 + 3 * (number of spell focus in illusion) ?

That way someone with epic spell focus illusion would get a 24 HD creature.

[izzul]

How about .. removing the cap for being able to copy but deleveling the copied creature to level 15 + 3 * (number of spell focus in illusion) ?

That way someone with epic spell focus illusion would get a 24 HD creature.

maybe 17 + 2 * (number of spell focus in illusion)?

spell focus illusion would get a 19 HD creatures
Greater spell focus illusion would get a 21HD creatures
Epic spell focus illusion would get 23HD creatures

[Sun Wukong]

How about .. removing the cap for being able to copy but deleveling the copied creature to level 15 + 3 * (number of spell focus in illusion) ?

That way someone with epic spell focus illusion would get a 24 HD creature.

How how about deleveling it to (2/3 of your caster level) + 3 * (Number of Spell Focus in Illusion)

Thus it would be about HD 20 for no illusion focus, and 29 for someone with illusion focus. (Shadow simulacrum would still be two times your caster level)

But anyhow... Even your suggestion would be an improvement.

[chad878262]

There is no desire to have summons of cr29, that is too strong. Valefort proposal matches up with current power levels pretty well, especially for the lower spell level.

[Sun Wukong]

As I said before, Valefort's suggesion would be an improvement to the spell.

[Wolfrayne]

How about .. removing the cap for being able to copy but deleveling the copied creature to level 15 + 3 * (number of spell focus in illusion) ?

That way someone with epic spell focus illusion would get a 24 HD creature.

My Illusionist approves.

[metaquad4]

There is no desire to have summons of cr29, that is too strong. Valefort proposal matches up with current power levels pretty well, especially for the lower spell level.

It is a clone spell, not the same as a summoning spell. It would copy up to CL 29, it would have no concealment, and it would be summoned at 1/4 HP. It would still be inferior to shadow sim, but at-least it would have some use.