Greater scrying - does the sensor move with you?

[Olive]

This is an adjunct to the old 'Scry & Fry' trick. Assuming your DM doesn't lead-line rooms etc, and you teleport in what happens to the sensor. It's not a concentration duration spell, so can you continue to see the target through your brain once you've arrived? This only matters if the target blinds you or teleports themselves or something equally irritating.

 

[the Jester]

Well, the sensor properly speaking is focused on the subject, not the caster, but I don't see why it wouldn't stick around. It would help you track down the victim if he tried to flee, which is actually very handy.

 

[Olive]

Indeed.

I actually don't mean the sensor but the senses themselves that you see through the sensor with.

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

Yes, it would still continue because as you pointed out it has a fixed duration, and doesn't require concentration. But generally (is this ever not the case?) you don't "have a picture of the subject in your brain". The picture of the subject appears in your scrying focus, the 1000gp mirror, the holy font, or the natural pool (so I guess Druids for one can't take their focus with them).

 

[isoChron]

Yes, it would still continue because as you pointed out it has a fixed duration, and doesn't require concentration. But generally (is this ever not the case?) you don't "have a picture of the subject in your brain". The picture of the subject appears in your scrying focus, the 1000gp mirror, the holy font, or the natural pool (so I guess Druids for one can't take their focus with them).

Does Greater Scrying have a focus ? I thought only Scrying has one. It says Components: V, S (no F, M/DF here).
So it still works in your brain.

BYE

 

[Olive]

Does Greater Scrying have a focus ? I thought only Scrying has one. It says Components: V, S (no F, M/DF here).
So it still works in your brain.

that was my idea.

 

[Silveras]

Getting back to the intent of the original question, Scrying states that the sensor "has your full visual acuity, including any magic". Greater Scrying "works like Scrying except as noted".

If you are blinded (losing all visual acuity), then, so is the sensor.

 

[Olive]

Getting back to the intent of the original question, Scrying states that the sensor "has your full visual acuity, including any magic". Greater Scrying "works like Scrying except as noted".

If you are blinded (losing all visual acuity), then, so is the sensor.

Ah but what about this

Scrying: A scrying spell creates an invisible magical sensor that sends you information. Unless noted otherwise, the sensor has the same powers of sensory acuity that you possess. This level of acuity includes any spells or effects that target you, but not spells or effects that emanate from you. However, the sensor is treated as a separate, independent sensory organ of yours, and thus it functions normally even if you have been blinded, deafened, or otherwise suffered sensory impairment.Any creature with an Intelligence score of 12 or higher can notice the sensor by making a DC 20 Intelligence check. The sensor can be dispelled as if it were an active spell.

Emphasis mine.

 

[Silveras]

Ah but what about this



Emphasis mine.

Obviously, I was wrong. That's what I get for looking at the spell and not the school overviews, too.

 

[Olive]

Obviously, I was wrong. That's what I get for looking at the spell and not the school overviews, too.

I do think the whole thing could be explained better. What form does the sensor take etc. Can other people see what you see (esp./ with scrying, where it's in a mirror, pool etc). Can you really still see what's happening in the mirror if you're blinded?

And so forth.