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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 4441234" data-attributes="member: 39394">How do you define &quot;learn what you need&quot; and &quot;see what you want&quot;?&nbsp; That's the core question.&nbsp; The unmodified ritual seems to be assuming that the goal of the scry is to see what somebody looks like, not to spy on them (despite the flavor text).&nbsp; Rather than change the scry ritual, maybe it would be better to add a new ritual specifically for long term spying.&nbsp;I'd make the limitation on that ritual that a physical focus has to be put in the location you want to scry.&nbsp; So you have one ritual that lets you see somebody's face anywhere in the world and another ritual for having the party sneak stealth their way into to meeting chamber and plant a bug to spy on the meeting of the big bad.&nbsp;I don't see any reason PCs should be able to spy for long periods of time from the comfort of their own tower without going to at least some effort.&nbsp; Why give them that capability?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfwood2, post: 4441234, member: 39394"] How do you define "learn what you need" and "see what you want"? That's the core question. The unmodified ritual seems to be assuming that the goal of the scry is to see what somebody looks like, not to spy on them (despite the flavor text). Rather than change the scry ritual, maybe it would be better to add a new ritual specifically for long term spying. I'd make the limitation on that ritual that a physical focus has to be put in the location you want to scry. So you have one ritual that lets you see somebody's face anywhere in the world and another ritual for having the party sneak stealth their way into to meeting chamber and plant a bug to spy on the meeting of the big bad. I don't see any reason PCs should be able to spy for long periods of time from the comfort of their own tower without going to at least some effort. Why give them that capability? [/QUOTE]

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