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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VirgilCaine" data-source="post: 3806405" data-attributes="member: 17083">Adamantine Fail. Fail beyond words. I keep seeing this myth perpretrated again and again and again.Read the spell. Read it again.Read it again.Read Greater Teleport, twice.These spells allow nothing of the sort.Notice the requirements? Knowledge of layout and location of the target area. Tell me how you are going to locate the villain's hideout using a spell that takes one hour to cast and lasts 1 minute per level. How many times are you going to scry on him before he notices? How many enemies do you think he has that try this trick? The enemy will not approach road signs, and use code names for destinations, targets, and allies. How much time to you need to note and combine specific details about the flora and fauna of where he is to find him? What about rock formations underground? Can you identify where he is underground by the rock face? Can you place accents well? Note the dangers of teleportation: natural or magical energy can make teleportation more dangerous or even impossible. Without solid information as to the location of the enemy and the trustworthiness of the scrying spell, you take your life in your hands when casting this spell. Any enemy that can would locate his demesne in an area dangerous to teleportation or create one using Control Weather, or use an ancient, already Forbiddanced temple as his base.Most D&D worlds have had magic work the same way for thousands of years. One would only need to make a Spellcraft skill roll to know Teleports limitations, but fortunately, there's hundreds of other people who came before the villains who set up long-lasting, durable fortresses or temples.Teleport and Greater Teleport are spells for escape and quick return to a group base or fortified temple of Good (or whatever alignment).</blockquote>

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