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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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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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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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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Who is targeted when Scrying's target is ambiguous?
The 5th level spell Scrying allows you to attempt to magically spy on a creature. The caster doesn't even need to have met the creature to attempt this.
What happens when the target the caster has ...
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Divination Wizard vs Closed Envelope
I am playing a level 6 Divination Wizard in a D&D 5e game. My character has been entrusted with an envelope by a person who's untrustworthy but not necessarily malevolent, and asked to deliver it, ...
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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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How can gambling work in a world where magical divination is possible?
In a DnD 3.5 universe, could a spell such as Divination or Commune allow the caster to cheat at betting on sporting events? (For example, by asking a question like "Will Stan Stormbow win in this ...
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How to handle Seer spells so they don't either waste time or make playing tedious?
Some of the fantasy magic systems we are/were playing provide spell casters with access to spells that provide the player with information about future events. Now, we know from many movies and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a spell that allows you to divine what happened "here"?
My Queen walks into a room full of bodies. One survivor, a small noble she's never met before, tells her a story about what happened to the prisoners she expected to find here. Fortunately, she's a ...
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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.
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Can a creature use Legendary Resistance to succeed on the saving throw against a Scrying spell?
My players recently decided that they would like to cast the scrying spell on a creature that has the Legendary Resistance trait.
Does the Legendary Resistance trait function outside of combat?
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How would D&D 5e spellcasters investigate an anonymous attack?
The adventuring party (D&D 5e level 5) have just managed to commit an audacious attack, destroying an important, visible monument. For the sake of argument let's assume that they have managed to ...
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How does nondetection interact with School of Divination's Portent?
As the title suggests, me and some friends had a disussion on this. First, here is the RAW from PHB on Portent (PHB 116):
Starting at 2nd leel when you choose this school, glimpses of the future ...
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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 a failed Locate Creature foil Nystul's Magic Aura?
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An evil wizard has used True Polymorph to make one of their minions resemble the king. As a precaution against diviners, the wizard also casts Nystul/Arcanist's Magic Aura, "Mask", ...
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Portent and spell preparation: which comes first?
Both the dice rolls for the 2nd-level School of Divination Wizard class feature Portent and a Wizard's spell preparation occur "when you finish a long rest". Which comes first - or can a Wizard PC ...
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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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Can either the Nondetection or Mind Blank spells prevent information about oneself being divined from others through the Legend Lore spell?
Can either the Nondetection or Mind Blank spells prevent information about oneself being divined from others through the Legend Lore spell?
In this instance, the party was trying to legend lore the ...
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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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What are the best non-wizard options for divination?
I'm creating a character for a D&D 5e game. The setting is home-brewed, but the rules are not. One limitation imposed by the setting is that wizard is not an allowed option at character creation.
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Can a creature tell when it has been affected by a Divination wizard's Portent?
Consider the following situation (from my perspective as the DM):
One of my PCs casts a spell on an NPC (or monster etc.) which forces the target to make, say, a Wisdom save, or else be frightened.
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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.
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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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Can I use a Divination wizard's Portent through a Scrying spell?
If a Divination wizard targets a creature with the scrying spell, and the creature is about to make a roll, could the wizard use the Portent feature to affect the result?
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Is there, or has there been, an official list of what aura magic items give?
In the 5th Edition description of detect magic, it states:
...you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic, and you learn its school ...
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How to work with Portent for replacing enemy rolls
It seems like, RAW, if a Divination Wizard is in the party then the DM would have to ask that player whether they want to interrupt the roll ... on every single roll that any NPC makes.
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Does Locate Creature work on a creature who died and became undead?
Can someone cast Locate Creature on a creature whom they knew when it was alive, but died recently and became undead? For instance, if a party member was bit by a vampire and died, could someone cast ...
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How to effectively deal with advanced "remote control" tactics in dungeons?
D&D 5e comes with a number of spells and abilities that allow characters to scout ahead without any risk for life and limb. For example:
As a wizard or warlock, you can have a familiar, and with ...
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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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Can an invisible stalker circumvent anti-divination magic?
The Invisible Stalker is a monster that can be summoned with an upcast Conjure Elemental spell. According to that spell, "It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by ...
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What happens when a Scrying target teleports away, or moves through a portal?
As the title says, I am unsure on the RAW or RAI of what would happen if a target who is being scried upon were to use the Teleport spell, or some other instant travel spell, for intraplanar only ...
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Are bricks considered rock? What about stone?
There are handful of divination spells that are blocked by barriers of a particular thickness and material, such as detect evil and good:
The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by ...
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Does a Wand of Secrets still point to a revealed secret or sprung trap?
If a secret door has been found or a trap sprung already and then a Wand of Secrets is used nearby either of those, does the Wand of Secrets still point to them? Or does it know they are no longer a ...
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How to protect myself against Divination with the least amount of resources
I am a fairly high-level wizard. I could learn Mind Blank or Nondetection, or use an amulet of protection against detection and location. But 8th level slots are too valuable, burning 25gp every day ...
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Can I Use Minor Illusion to create a 5ft box around myself to block a scrying sensor's sight?
My party is being scryed on by an enemy. We are all low level and don't have access to second level spells yet.
I want to use paper and quill, to write down sensitive information, then pass the ...
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Is there a way to learn what was written in a burned document?
I'm playing pathfinder and I just recovered the ashes of burned papers. The Dm told me make whole wouldn't work because a big part of the paper went off in smoke and as such there isn't all the parts. ...
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What would be the balance effects of adding extra Divination spells?
I am playing a Divination wizard at the moment and quite disappointed that there are only 17 Divination spells, so I thought I would look at some homebrew ones to talk to the DM about.
The question is,...
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Creating a Fortress that Allows Owner to Scry, but Blocks Others
I'm a GM designing the remote fortress of an ancient-but-still-living archmage (>=20th level?). The archmage lives in society at present, and only returns to his fortress a few times per year, or as ...
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Can I use Spell Mastery, Expert Divination, and Mind Spike to regain infinite 1st level slots?
I was planning on making a divination wizard build in D&D 5e, but something dawned on me. Could I technically cast infinite level 1 spells, by choosing mind spike as a spell mastery and having ...
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Is this buff to the Clairvoyance spell still the power of a 3rd-level spell?
I want to give Clairvoyance a buff, as it is a 3rd-level spell that is a little bit underpowered in my opinion.
Here is the current text of the Clairvoyance spell (from D&D Beyond):
You create an ...
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Does casting detect magic reveal the school of a spell stored in a Glyph of Warding?
In D&D 5e, If one casts detect magic on a glyph of warding with a spell stored in it, does it only reveal Abjuration school, or do you get an undercurrent or hint at the school of the stored spell ...
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When using the Augury spell, how good or bad does the outcome of the course of action have to be to justify a response of Weal / Woe?
My players are planning to use Augury to decide whether to enter a dungeon, and I'm trying to decide what the outcome of the spell should be.
I can see that some extremes should be obvious: for ...
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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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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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