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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6744857" data-attributes="member: 996">You could use several possible approaches.You could rule that any spell which might screw up your game simply fails, with or without some convenient reason.  Simple, effective, doesn't require knowing the spells in advance.  You can make figuring out why the spell failed part of the mystery.  Magical McGuffins can work for that.Or, you could thoroughly familiarize yourself with the cleric spell list and plan counters for each spell he might use.  Counters that don't simply block the spell, but keep the mystery going or deepen it or allow it to unfold that the desired pace.  D&D has had such things as amulets of non-detections and warded rooms and even lead sheeting to mess with such things.  And the quarry can always cleverly abuse magic or preparation, as well.  He could use an illusion (or just clever set dressing and a deception check) to make the area he's in appear like a very dangerous area familiar to the PCs.  The PCs scry him, recognize the surroundings and waste a lot of time/effort/hps searching it.You could make the 'mystery' a minor part of the adventure with interaction and combat taking up the slack.You could take the opposite tack, and instead of trying to block information-gathering, have it yield /extra/ information and clues that deepen the mystery or distract from pursuing it.  When they scry him, he's in an unfamiliar area filled with unsettling pre-human architecture, and it takes esoteric research to identify the obscure ruins.  Find the Path takes them through an area that presents a distracting side-quest.  True Seeing reveals a gang (npi) of dopplegangers in the midst of an unrelated plot.  Divination/Commune/whatever issue crytpic warnings only tangentially related (that do lead to the PC dealing with other pressing dangers).That can be a problem in itself.  Mysteries and pursuit don't intrigue every player, depending on what your group is like, letting the Cleric cut to the chase may suit the temperaments of some of them better than drawing it out so they all get to participate...</blockquote>

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