Timeline for Who is targeted when Scrying's target is ambiguous?
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| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:36 | history | bounty ended | NotArch | ||
| Jul 27, 2021 at 17:26 | comment | added | Jason_c_o | I think I'd show them whoever is dressed as the vigilante at that moment, and the spell fails if no one is "on duty." Let then guess where they've gone when they can't be found by scrying. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 14:55 | history | edited | Lauren Moylan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edit to move away from suggestion while still including how I might interpret the situation.
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:23 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 25, 2019 at 13:19 | comment | added | Vigil | I agree with @MarkTO on the reasons this is a good answer - I think the first option is arguably indeed the RAW meaning, but the other options are sensible alternatives in the event it's not. Personally I think I will use that first option of requiring sufficient identifying specification before allowing the spell to work. I don't want to make Scrying a "work out whether this thing is more than one person" spell, so I think I will simply allow an insufficiently specific spell to fail as if the creature was warded or had made a save, without cluing the PCs in to any special circumstance. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 13:14 | vote | accept | Vigil | ||
| Jan 24, 2019 at 17:31 | history | edited | Lauren Moylan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2019 at 17:21 | comment | added | PJRZ | The scrying spell allows targeting a creature "you have heard of", so another option is to ask the player to describe how they heard of them. The first thing they say ("that vigilante who beat up the corrupt mayor last night")...that's the guy they get. If they cast scrying again using a different description, they could end up with a different person (a clue that the vigilante is not one person!) | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 17:00 | comment | added | user47897 | I like this because there is no 'RAW' answer to this that I can find, and it spells out the GM's interpretations nicely. | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 16:21 | history | answered | Lauren Moylan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |