Toliudar
2009-11-05, 04:45 PM
Over and over, I hear about "scrying" as a great way to avoid being surprised by an event later on. Want to find out what you'll be facing today? Scry ahead!
What am I missing here? Except in those instances in which you know an individual you'll be facing, scrying is useless. Clairvoyance only works if you've already seen the place, AND is stationary. Divination (the spell, not the school) gives little cryptic hints. Prying eyes is lovely, but foiled by a closed door or a dark room (I've always wanted to have a BBEG notice a Prying Eye and then cast an illusion around it so that it records a bunch of false information).
Is this a case of "scrying" being used as a catchall for a group of other divinations (presumably ones that I'm not thinking of), or am I perhaps mis-reading the spell?
What am I missing here? Except in those instances in which you know an individual you'll be facing, scrying is useless. Clairvoyance only works if you've already seen the place, AND is stationary. Divination (the spell, not the school) gives little cryptic hints. Prying eyes is lovely, but foiled by a closed door or a dark room (I've always wanted to have a BBEG notice a Prying Eye and then cast an illusion around it so that it records a bunch of false information).
Is this a case of "scrying" being used as a catchall for a group of other divinations (presumably ones that I'm not thinking of), or am I perhaps mis-reading the spell?