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<blockquote data-quote="Nevvur" data-source="post: 7336144" data-attributes="member: 6783882">Overall, I like the basic idea quite a lot. Magical espionage sounds like great fun! Not a fan of the execution, though. As Ath-Kenin notes, the 5% chance of failure is like Sending, so I do like that part of it. However, the retroactive effect (3 days in the past) and the ongoing chance of continuation (50% on 1d6) I strongly dislike.My preference would be to make it a 24 hour duration spell with concentration that can be resisted by the target on a Wisdom save. On a failure, the target doesn't realize he's being observed, and subsequent castings made before the duration ends automatically succeed. On a success, the target notices he's been tapped and the spell fails. The point is to make it require some upkeep like a person conducting a real surveillance job, not something you can cast and forget til it pings. If that doesn't fit your campaign and the intent of the spell, by all means keep it as is.Also, love the choice of material component! You've &quot;bugged&quot; the target! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nevvur, post: 7336144, member: 6783882"] Overall, I like the basic idea quite a lot. Magical espionage sounds like great fun! Not a fan of the execution, though. As Ath-Kenin notes, the 5% chance of failure is like Sending, so I do like that part of it. However, the retroactive effect (3 days in the past) and the ongoing chance of continuation (50% on 1d6) I strongly dislike. My preference would be to make it a 24 hour duration spell with concentration that can be resisted by the target on a Wisdom save. On a failure, the target doesn't realize he's being observed, and subsequent castings made before the duration ends automatically succeed. On a success, the target notices he's been tapped and the spell fails. The point is to make it require some upkeep like a person conducting a real surveillance job, not something you can cast and forget til it pings. If that doesn't fit your campaign and the intent of the spell, by all means keep it as is. Also, love the choice of material component! You've "bugged" the target! :D [/QUOTE]

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