Questions tagged [divination]
For questions related to game mechanics that involve divining the future, scrying, or other forms of magical or divine information gathering.
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Do Nondetection and Invisibility protect you from True Seeing?
Nondetection says it hides the target from all divination spells. Invisibility hides you from normal sight. When combining both effects on one target, are they hidden from true seeing?
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How does the Divination wizard's Portent feature interact with Advantage and Disadvantage?
The School of Divination wizard's Portent feature says, in part (Player's Handbook, page 116):
You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can ...
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Can I cast Nondetection and Divination spells on myself?
I have a simple question:
If I cast a nondetection spell on me can I also cast spells like detect magic on myself while I'm under the nondetection effect?
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What can be done to a Scrying sensor?
The spell scrying states:
On a failed save, the spell creates an invisible sensor within 10 feet of the target. You can see and hear through the sensor as if you were there. The sensor moves with ...
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Does the Divination wizard's Portent feature replace only the d20 roll, or the final outcome?
The School of Divination wizard's Portent feature states (PHB, p. 116; emphasis mine):
You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see with ...
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Can a creature under the effect of Nondetection be detected by the Detect Magic spell?
Can someone with nondetection be picked up with detect magic? It seems to me that detect magic will sense a magical aura (perhaps abjuration or illusion) since it does not target the creature.
Also, I ...
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What are outcome-changing circumstances mentioned in Augury and Divination?
This is one of those naval-gazing questions that may have actual mechanical bearing. Both Augury and Divination predict the outcome of future events:
In the case of Augury
"the results of a ...
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Will an Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location protect an invisible character from being observed by True Sight or Robe of Eyes?
Will an Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location protect an invisible character from being observed directly with divination magic?
I get that the Amulet would prevent the wearer from being ...
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How reliable is Druidcraft weather prediction?
Barring Control Weather or other unnaturally weather alteration, how reliable is the weather prediction part of Druidcraft cantrip?
You create a tiny, harmless sensory effect that predicts what the ...
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How does Nondetection affect Clairvoyance and Scrying?
How does Nondetection protect from divination magic?
When someone casts Clairvoyance or Scrying on a place/creature other than the target and there is something/someone protected by Nondetection in ...
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What is the Legend Lore spell actually doing "under the hood"?
I've been wondering how the spell legend lore actually works, and the best way I can come up with to phrase the question is to use the phrase "under the hood". I know how the spell works in ...
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We know someone is scrying on us. Is there anything we can do about it?
It would be unusual, to me, if there were no spell in the world that could "feedback" (as my DM puts it) on the scryer. We're usually really creative about this sort of thing, but on this we have no ...
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Can the Locate Object spell be used to determine if an NPC has a heart?
My party (level 7; Rogue, Cleric, Fighter, Paladin, and Warlock) is investigating a demon portal, and we're trying to obtain as much info as possible before entering it. We learned that it is being ...
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What's your best practice as a DM to "protect" your awesome campaign's mystery "against" the Divination spell?
Some context: I'm a newbie DM running the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign for my party. What's so special about this campaign is that it's full of intrigue / politics / betrayal and mystery. Also it'...
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Will Nondetection prevent an Alarm spell from triggering?
This question came up while answering this question. While I made the assumption that Nondetection does not protect against an Alarm in my answer, I quickly realised that the answer probably wasn't as ...
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Can Mind Blank be detected?
After thinking about uses for Mind Blank and how it interacts with a bunch of spells, I then tried to think of counters and ways someone could get past it with one problem always coming up. How do you ...
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How should Augury work when the course of action relies on a skill check?
My party's Cleric has just picked up Augury. It's clearly a spell that garners some understandable confusion, but I don't think this precise question's been asked before.
How should I, as DM, answer ...
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Does a target of the Scrying spell know they were targeted?
Does a target of the scrying spell know that they were the target of the spell, either as the spell is being cast or after the target makes their saving throw?
The text of the spell seems to leave it ...
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What spells or magic items are available to detect lies?
I'm playing through Storm King's Thunder, and came across an unusual magic item:
Gavel of the Venn Rune
The Gift of Truth feature for this item says:
Whenever a creature utters a lie while within the ...
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Does Nondetection + Invisibility keep you invisible to someone with See Invisibility? [duplicate]
Initially I thought that the whole point of the Nondetection spell is to protect you from all variety of spells like See Invisibility. It sounds quite logical based on the spell's name.
However, then ...
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What counts as a "specific goal, event, or activity" for the Divination spell?
The divination spell states:
Similar to augury but more powerful, a divination spell can provide you with a useful piece of advice in reply to a question concerning a specific goal, event, or ...
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Are there any spells other than Wish that can locate an object through lead shielding?
We recently stole a phylactery. We now have to figure out how to destroy it, and in the meantime need to conceal it from being located by its owner that will soon be realizing what is going on. We ...
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Does Locate Object lock on a target?
The spell description reads:
Alternatively, the spell can locate the nearest object of a particular
kind, such as a certain kind of apparel, jewelry, furniture, tool, or
weapon. This spell can’...
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If the target of a Scrying spell succeeds on the saving throw against the spell, who is prevented from using the spell on them for the next 24 hours?
The description of the scrying spell states in part that:
On a successful save, the target isn't affected, and you can't use
this spell against it again for 24 hours.
However, this seems a bit ...
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Can a creature with a Mind Blank spell active on itself target itself with Encode Thoughts?
Can a creature with an active mind blank spell target itself with encode thoughts?
My gut instinct was no. Upon further review, maybe?
For context:
I am playing a divination wizard in a West ...
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Does the Detect Magic spell detect any external divination spells?
Suppose a spellcaster NPC is using a divination spell on the party to either spy on them or locate them such as Locate Creature or Clairvoyance or (especially) the Scrying spell.
Would a player ...
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Does detect magic reveal sequester? [duplicate]
Suppose we are casting Sequester on an object.
Detect magic (level 1 Divination) says :
For the duration, you sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you.
And Sequester (level 7 Transmutation) ...
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