about scry

[Cake Mage]

now I'm not sure what the official word on the spell/skill scry is, but in the game and play, and the game I dm, I/we use scry basicly like a satalite type thing where you can zoom in and out and move the area your scrying slightly.

Does this make this spell/skill overkill and unbalance things?

I don't think it does and it makes this much much more usefull. My mage uses it all the time now and so does our cleric. what are your guys' views on this?

 

[Dinkeldog]

Just moving it into the Rules forum.

I play it that the important thing you scry for is a person, so you have to be centered on that person, but you can move around a bit to get different perspective on the person. I also (shhh) lower the detect DC if you're moving around the sensor. Not really in the rules, but makes sense to me--a moving object attracts attention more than a stationary one.

If you want to move around and leave the person you're scrying on, then you need a different spell like clairvoyance/clairaudience or wizard eye

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

I'm not so sure about that. The spell says that it "creates a magical sensor near the subject."

I'd agree that the sensor moves if the subject moves, but it says nothing in the description about allow the caster to move the sensor around at all. I think that's what Arcane Eye is for.