This seems like a great utility spell, but as a third level spell its a hefty cost for players who just got their third level slots. Making it a ritual would be nice.

Limits.

If you give an infinite of communication magic that even has a high chance of success over the planes, there is no reason to never-not know anything. All knowledge, always.

Challenge Rating: -infinity

Ah, a favorite spell of Jesters.

...Now if only she could use it properly.

In my game I think I'd make it so people could block if unwanted. Think random twitter DMs are annoying? This could be abused far worse.

Seems to be working quite well for her so far... mostly.

Be nice to Jessie she's trying

why the **** is this an evocation spell??

i mean, you are in a way sending mighty magical energies from the weave of magic to your target, it just feels like divination or enchantment could fit better here. I het that magical telephony is hardly the trope that most divination and enchantment casters go for it simply does not feel right to not have this

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why the **** is this an evocation spell??

i mean, you are in a way sending mighty magical energies from the weave of magic to your target, it just feels like divination or enchantment could fit better here. I het that magical telephony is hardly the trope that most divination and enchantment casters go for it simply does not feel right to not have this

 This has puzzled me too, literally in DND 3.5 if you ban evocation as a wizard, you can't send messages, which is like, what?

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why the **** is this an evocation spell??

i mean, you are in a way sending mighty magical energies from the weave of magic to your target, it just feels like divination or enchantment could fit better here. I het that magical telephony is hardly the trope that most divination and enchantment casters go for it simply does not feel right to not have this

 This has puzzled me too, literally in DND 3.5 if you ban evocation as a wizard, you can't send messages, which is like, what?

I like it this way. Divination spells are too easily blocked (amulets of non-detection, etc). If a player wants to contact a BBG (schemers and spies) or other high ranking person they've met, they can. If the DM doesn't want the contact, they can just ignore the message. I just like that it keeps options open for both players and DMs. Though I agree it feels more like a divination spell.

Here's a question. A caster encounters NPC 1, converses with and gets to know them.  Unbeknownst to the caster, NPC 1 has a disguise self spell up and is impersonating NPC 2.  

At a later date, when the caster uses Sending to communicate with the NPC they spoke with, which NPC would that message go to?

The caster didn't know that the impersonator wasn''t the impersonated, so the magic should be directed to the person who they became "familiar" with. The spell itself references that it's possible for a receiver to not know the person casting sending. "The creature hears the message in its mind, recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately.", so I would say that the spell can target someone that the caster has not actually met, and that assuming the illusion was convincing (aka the caster did not detect it was an illusion), it would be reasonable for the spell to target an unmet familiar target.

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why the **** is this an evocation spell??

i mean, you are in a way sending mighty magical energies from the weave of magic to your target, it just feels like divination or enchantment could fit better here. I het that magical telephony is hardly the trope that most divination and enchantment casters go for it simply does not feel right to not have this

 This has puzzled me too, literally in DND 3.5 if you ban evocation as a wizard, you can't send messages, which is like, what?

 In a word "Desirable effect"

Arrre you poopin?

does the caster able to know if the person the message sent to, is recieved the message, just unable/dont want to answer, or not?

Imma use this to insult a bbeg during a quest 

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does the caster able to know if the person the message sent to, is recieved the message, just unable/dont want to answer, or not?

That's an excellent point, can the caster can tell the difference?

So you can target a "creature with which you are familiar" and that creature can be on another plane of existence?

...So... a cleric's god?

No no, I disagree. 

It *magically* targets someone you’re *familiar* with. No matter how good the disguise, you never became familiar with the person they are pretending to be. So the person you actually became familiar with gets magically targeted. Aka It pierces disguise and glamours. 

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The caster didn't know that the impersonator wasn''t the impersonated, so the magic should be directed to the person who they became "familiar" with. The spell itself references that it's possible for a receiver to not know the person casting sending. "The creature hears the message in its mind, recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately.", so I would say that the spell can target someone that the caster has not actually met, and that assuming the illusion was convincing (aka the caster did not detect it was an illusion), it would be reasonable for the spell to target an unmet familiar target.

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No no, I disagree. 

It *magically* targets someone you’re *familiar* with. No matter how good the disguise, you never became familiar with the person they are pretending to be. So the person you actually became familiar with gets magically targeted. Aka It pierces disguise and glamours. 

 (Edit: This is my reply. I didn’t quite the original thing I was replying to)

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The caster didn't know that the impersonator wasn''t the impersonated, so the magic should be directed to the person who they became "familiar" with. The spell itself references that it's possible for a receiver to not know the person casting sending. "The creature hears the message in its mind, recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately.", so I would say that the spell can target someone that the caster has not actually met, and that assuming the illusion was convincing (aka the caster did not detect it was an illusion), it would be reasonable for the spell to target an unmet familiar target.

 

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No no, I disagree. 

It *magically* targets someone you’re *familiar* with. No matter how good the disguise, you never became familiar with the person they are pretending to be. So the person you actually became familiar with gets magically targeted. Aka It pierces disguise and glamours. 

 (Edit: This is my reply. I didn’t quite the original thing I was replying to)

 more explanation of what I meant: if you’d never seen the president of the US, and you met an impersonator and tried to use this spell to contact him, you would magically be sending a spell to that specific person in you’re mind. You aren’t writing a magic letter and addressing it to “The President of the USA” and shipping it off. You are magically focusing on some specific person you met and are familiar with, who you happen to think is the president. The magic of the spell doesn’t care what you think that persons name is, because it would still work if he gave you a fake name. it goes to the actual person you met and are mentally focusing on, even if they never told you their name. You aren’t actually focusing on the real president no matter how much you think you are.