You can see and hear a particular creature you choose that is on the same plane of existence as you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw, which is modified by how well you know the target and the sort of physical connection you have to it. If a target knows you're casting this spell, it can fail the saving throw voluntarily if it wants to be observed.
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Knowledge |
Save Modifier |
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| Secondhand (you have heard of the target) | +5 |
| Firsthand (you have met the target) | 0 |
| Familiar (you know the target well) | -5 |
| Connection | Save Modifier |
|---|---|
| Likeness or picture | -2 |
| Possession or garment | -4 |
| Body part, lock of hair, bit of nail, or the like | -10 |
On a successful save, the target isn't affected, and you can't use this spell against it again for 24 hours.
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 the target, remaining within 10 feet of it for the duration. A creature that can see invisible objects sees the sensor as a luminous orb about the size of your fist.
Instead of targeting a creature, you can choose a location you have seen before as the target of this spell. When you do, the sensor appears at that location and doesn't move.
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Posted Jul 10, 2023Can I cast this spell even if I don't have a connection to the target? Like, can I target a creature with Scrying if I've heard of them, but don't have a picture of them?
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Posted Aug 16, 2023"You can see and hear a particular creature you choose that is on the same plane of existence as you."
It's likely that the creature still exists, but is no longer on the same plane of existence as you are, as they have died and their spirit had likely left the material plane. Even if they are still around as a ghost, it's questionable wether or not they are effected. I've ruled in such instance that the spell connects, but the picture it shows is strange/broken. For instance you scry on a dead creature whose spirit is in the ethereal plane haunting the material. The spell would just show a greyed out, cloudly picture of the location where the ghost is, without the ghost.
OR you can make a funny trolling by suddenly showing the ghost, like those old jumpscares. You can be creatice here with this.
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Posted Nov 2, 2023https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U5npF7lq2Yk
This clip made this even more confusing on top of the convoluted nature of this spell. Also what did he mean by "You don't roll for scry"?
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Posted Mar 27, 2024The target makes a saving throw, the caster does not make a roll. So Sam's nat 20 there meant nothing.
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Posted Mar 27, 2024Quote from
What's confusing? The target makes a saving throw. The caster doesn't roll anything, just like with any other spell that requires a saving throw. So Sam's nat 20 there means nothing.
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Posted Jun 5, 2024I hate how this spell is written. I understand how it works but they make it far more complicated in how they wrote it. I personally think the modifier should be applied to the DC. How I usually run this spell is the Spell save DC is modified by the chart:
Character Spell Save DC: is 14.
So the DC if the caster knows the target very well is 14+5=19. I basically reverse the chart numbers and it makes it SOOO much easier to run to me.
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Posted Jul 14, 2024How does this not have the Scrying tag when Clairvoyance does?
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Posted Aug 1, 2024Unless the timing was extremely bad and they could see invisibility during a dungeon delve for example🤘I would rule for fun and intrigue even on a failed scry that if their passive perception was higher than the spell DC of the caster that they would be able to see the momentary glimpse of a sensor start to form and then fade to ether in such conditions
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Posted Aug 5, 2024What a great spell.
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Posted Aug 19, 2024Rules as written, the dead henchmen is no longer on the same plain of existence as the boss, and the spell said it targets a creature, a dead bodie is an object. By all accounts the spell should fail