He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken

[TheAuldGrump]

I'd have it as a feat - requiring the ability to cast 6th level Divination spells.

The Auld Grump

 

[Felix]

This spell would suck if your name was "Gary", or "Frank". The damn spell would never stop auto-scrying the local bowling alley where everyone was congratulating "Ed" on his good game.

 

[Glyfair]

Did Piratecat ever write up (for public consumption) the earring that worked that way?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm not sure it would, honestly. A spell that tells you "Hey, someone said your name!" would probably be only mid-level. One that allowed you to ID them (well enough to scry on them) would be higher, but epic? Nah. 8th, maybe.

(This assumes that you still have to cast scrying separately, and that you don't know the subject well at all, so there are penalties. One that included the scry effect automatically, or that allowed you to know the subject well, would probably have to be epic.)

Yeah, the teleport or scrying would be separate. I'm just curious about a spell that would say "hey, they're talking about you!"

 

[Sound of Azure]

High level Divination Reserve feat tied in with Truenamer magic?

 

[Thurbane]

High level Divination Reserve feat tied in with Truenamer magic?

That's along the lines I was thinking...

 

[TarionzCousin]

You get this ability for free if you are the Queen of Air and Darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Air_and_Darkness_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)

I dunno, Limited Wish or something?

In Monte Cook's AU/AE, Magisters can choose that ability at 18th level as a free benefit; Name of Power; they know whenever anyone says their name (when referring to them in particular) and know the name of whoever spoke it.

I'd say a spell like that would be maybe 6th-level or so? 7th maybe. Or a bit lower if it has a short duration, rather than something like 1 hour/level or 24 hours or Permanent.

This sounds good to me.

 

[Shemeska]

I gave the ability to a PC who became a Chosen of Mystra near the end of a campaign (he could know who said his name, and then the next 15 words), and then I gave it to his nutty wife as well. Tiefling Xaositect. No reason for her to have the ability too, but somehow she got it too, by hook or by crook or pure random fluke. She'd say his name and then babble, or sing a song with his name in it. Eventually he learned how to censor the ability and tune it out.

I've had a few NPCs with similar abilities, archfiends in this case, but for most of them, it only applied on their claimed layer of a plane, or the lower planes in general. One or two could hear you regardless of where you were, and could frankly do just about anything at that point (think 'X lower plane suddenly consumes a person standing there after they say the wrong name' etc).

 

[Dioltach]

I seem to remember the Symbul, I think it was, in the FR novel Spellfire had a permanent spell effect that allowed to hear whenever someone mentioned her name, and the next few words as well.

Seeing as Epic Magic didn't exist back in those early days, I'd say it should be possible with normal spells.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Didn't the Lady of Pain also have that ability? Then again she was sort of like a.....

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