if the enemy uses part of the user's body as a hand or organ removed the individual has -10 penalty as per the rule says, however my doubt is: if we reincarnate the target in another body, that bonus would cease to have effect ?? since the body part used and the physical knowledge about that person has changed ??
That is well beyond the rules, but I would say no, reincarnation does not make such scrying harder. In fact it makes it easier. The old body and all its parts are still your body. They are bits of flesh which previously encased your immortal soul. The scrying magic is trying to lock on to your soul signature, and any body part which previously encased that soul is a tool which aids that targeting.
But then, I just made that reasoning up drunkenly.
What RegentCorreon is demonstrating above (and is likely trying to drunkenly say :p ) is that it depends entirely on the setting, story, and/or DM, since there are no specific rules for this situation.
Perhaps in your setting the soul forms that arcane link through body parts, and that link lingers regardless of what happens to your body afterwards (useful to track a companion's soul if it has been trapped somewhere!)
Perhaps the soul is abstract, and the connection needs to be made by body part alone - thus Reincarnate would foil such attempts (or even mislead!).
Perhaps the wizard collective has figured out such eventualities, and the spell itself has provisions to recognize it (and inform the caster).
As per usual, I'd advise consistency upon such things within your setting/story/campaign, but as far as the rules go, it's up to the DM.
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if the enemy uses part of the user's body as a hand or organ removed the individual has -10 penalty as per the rule says, however my doubt is: if we reincarnate the target in another body, that bonus would cease to have effect ?? since the body part used and the physical knowledge about that person has changed ??
That is well beyond the rules, but I would say no, reincarnation does not make such scrying harder. In fact it makes it easier. The old body and all its parts are still your body. They are bits of flesh which previously encased your immortal soul. The scrying magic is trying to lock on to your soul signature, and any body part which previously encased that soul is a tool which aids that targeting.
But then, I just made that reasoning up drunkenly.
What RegentCorreon is demonstrating above (and is likely trying to drunkenly say :p ) is that it depends entirely on the setting, story, and/or DM, since there are no specific rules for this situation.
Perhaps in your setting the soul forms that arcane link through body parts, and that link lingers regardless of what happens to your body afterwards (useful to track a companion's soul if it has been trapped somewhere!)
Perhaps the soul is abstract, and the connection needs to be made by body part alone - thus Reincarnate would foil such attempts (or even mislead!).
Perhaps the wizard collective has figured out such eventualities, and the spell itself has provisions to recognize it (and inform the caster).
As per usual, I'd advise consistency upon such things within your setting/story/campaign, but as far as the rules go, it's up to the DM.