Detect Divination

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Detect Divination

Post by Telk » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:43 pm

I was thinking this would be a pretty neat skill and would make sense. It would be for wizards, and possibly priests, or any spellcasting class. This skill would allow the player to be able to detect when someone casts scrying magic like magic mirror on them. I was reading some FR books and in a lot of the books wizards are able to detect when someone is scrying on them, so it would make quite a bit of IC sense for a player to detect when someone is magic mirroring them. I don't know what the echo would be, something along the lines of 'You detect someone spying on you.' Also, maybe at higher levels of the skill you could actually tell who the caster is? Open to suggestions and everyone's opinion on this.
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Re: Detect Divination

Post by Peverell » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:25 pm

Coincidentally, I cast magic mirror on someone today and started thinking along similar lines...
I can imagine a high level magic user getting a sense of someone spying on them with magic.
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Re: Detect Divination

Post by Selveem » Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:13 pm

It's a skill in D&D; unfortunately, it doesn't exist in FK so there is no check.
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Re: Detect Divination

Post by Telk » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:16 am

Yes, but just because it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't exist :) I was thinking it would just be a passive skill that you have a check of succeeding or failing depending on how high your skill level is. Every time someone casts magic mirror on you, or clairvoyance, or any of those kinds of spells.
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