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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8878331" data-attributes="member: 57383">Let's have a stab at this, in order of increasing elaborateness:Detect Life #1—Life Detection. The cairn knows if there is a living creature within 300 feet of it, as well as the creature's type (beast, humanoid, et cetera), and degree of sentience (mindless, animal intelligence, or fully sapient). The cairn can use an action to focus Detect Life on a creature it senses, which lets the cairn know where the creature is located. This power can penetrate most barriers, including any thickness of rock or dirt, but is blocked by 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood. Detect Life #2—Sense Life. The cairn knows if there is a living creature within 300 feet of it, as well as the creature's type (beast, humanoid, et cetera), and degree of sentience (mindless, animal intelligence, or fully sapient). The cairn can use an action to focus Sense Life on a living creature it detects, which must make a DC ## Wisdom saving throw. If the target fails, the cairn knows where the creature is located. If the target succeeds, then for the next 24 hours the targeted creature gets a chilling impression they're being watched every time the cairn focuses Sense Life upon them; the target can then make a Wisdom (Insight) check or Charisma (Deception) check against a Wisdom (Perception) check by the cairn; if this check succeeds the cairn's Sense Life will not locate that creature for 1 minute, or until the cairn locates them with another sense. This power can penetrate most barriers, including any thickness of rock or dirt, but is blocked by 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood. Detect Life #3—Life Sense. The cairn can sense living organisms within 300 feet of it. If a living creature enters this range, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against the cairn's passive Perception (DC ##); if the creature fails, the cairn is alerted to the creature's presence, as well as the creature's type (beast, humanoid, et cetera), and degree of sentience (mindless, animal intelligence, or fully sapient). If the creature succeeds, the cairn's Life Sense will not detect them for 1 minute (whereupon the creature repeats the saving throw), or until the cairn notices the intruder using one of its other senses (which causes Life Sense to automatically detect the creature). The cairn can use an action to focus Life Sense on a living creature it detects, which must make a DC ## Wisdom saving throw. If the target fails, the cairn knows where the creature is located. If the target succeeds, then for the next 24 hours the targeted creature gets a chilling impression they're being watched every time the cairn focuses Life Sense at them; the target can then make a Wisdom (Insight) check or Charisma (Deception) check against a Wisdom (Perception) check by the cairn; if this check succeeds the cairn's Life Sense will not locate that creature for 1 minute, or until the cairn locates them with another sense. This power can penetrate most barriers, including any thickness of rock or dirt, but is blocked by 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood.Mixed up the names so it wasn't just Detect Life #1, #2 and #3. Of the three names I like Life Sense the best (or should that be Lifesense?), although not necessarily the Detect Life #3 "Life Sense" ability.I've got an idea for an even more complicated version, but that'll have to wait.</blockquote>

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