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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2956293" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>Well, Speak With Dead is likely to make a low-level murder mystery more interesting but probably won't break it unless the victim recognised the murder attempt and the murderer, which is hardly to be guaranteed, plus it gives only a few snippy answers. On the other hand, this spell gives you several minutes of rich visual information, which means rather than the victim realising she was being poisoned or whatever a priori, the detective, who has the hindsight of knowing that a murder is definitely occurring and possibly the snooping skills to notice better clues, can take a look and find out more than the dead person actually knew. Now, that isn't always better than Speak With Dead, but it often is, since Speak With Dead is mediated by NPC interaction and this spell lets the PC see the description (plus it challenges the GM to type out an incredibly detailed description of every single thing that happened in those few minutes lest they make the clue obvious). The biggest thing is that when combined, these two spells are much more powerful than apart. Was the murderer one of the victim's associates and she knows? Speak With Dead will find out. Was the murderer actually someone the PCs know? The new spell will find out. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, but you'd have to someone get us the info we needed to judge it without violating copyright.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No worries <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 2956293, member: 29014"] Well, Speak With Dead is likely to make a low-level murder mystery more interesting but probably won't break it unless the victim recognised the murder attempt and the murderer, which is hardly to be guaranteed, plus it gives only a few snippy answers. On the other hand, this spell gives you several minutes of rich visual information, which means rather than the victim realising she was being poisoned or whatever a priori, the detective, who has the hindsight of knowing that a murder is definitely occurring and possibly the snooping skills to notice better clues, can take a look and find out more than the dead person actually knew. Now, that isn't always better than Speak With Dead, but it often is, since Speak With Dead is mediated by NPC interaction and this spell lets the PC see the description (plus it challenges the GM to type out an incredibly detailed description of every single thing that happened in those few minutes lest they make the clue obvious). The biggest thing is that when combined, these two spells are much more powerful than apart. Was the murderer one of the victim's associates and she knows? Speak With Dead will find out. Was the murderer actually someone the PCs know? The new spell will find out. Yes, but you'd have to someone get us the info we needed to judge it without violating copyright. No worries :) [/QUOTE]
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