Discern Location and Teleport/Scry

[Cheiromancer]

In Monte Cook's Book of Eldritch Might there is a sixth level spell Teleport Coordinates Transfer which includes the following text:

Alternatively, if you learn of a location through a spell like discern location, teleport tracer, or legend lore, you can use this spell to teleport there as if you were very familiar with the location.

In no way does this spell provide the actual means of teleportation. You provide your own mode of teleport.

This suggests that a wizard whose information is provided solely by a discern location spell cannot teleport without error to the location specified. (The spell description says you need a description of the target area.)

My reading of the spell scrying indicates that knowing the exact location of the target does not help in locating it. Thus a discern location will not help one scry a target in order to get a description of the area, the better to teleport there.

Is all this according to the rules? I know it could be house-ruled various ways, but I'd like to know what the "by the book" ruling would be.

 

[Thanee]

Indeed, discern location alone does not help to teleport.

You only got the 'address' of the location (i.e. name of plane, continent, country, region, specific region, any more accurate as possible), not a picture or description of the location, which is needed for teleport.

Clairvoyance, however, might actually work (it's one of those rather vague spell descriptons) and would in turn provide enough information to teleport there.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Cheiromancer]

In 3.5 clairvoyance no longer has unlimited range (merely "long"), and you can only scry a creature, so I guess that scouting for a site to teleport to is much more difficult.

Especially since teleport has a limited range, too.