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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7522777" data-attributes="member: 58197">For defense against scrying: Mordenkainen's sanctum is a villain's best friend. Permacast it on your safe houses to ward off scrying and teleporting invaders. When you have to go outside, amulets of proof against detection and location are uncommon items; nondetection is a 3rd-level spell with a cost of 25 gp. In a high-magic setting, neither should be hard to come by.Disguise your agents. Always. If you can, use magic to force a patsy to do your dirty work. Failing that, a simple disguise spell and Nystul's magic aura will let you frame somebody with minimal fuss. When they cast speak with dead, the corpse can only testify to what it saw--even if what it saw wasn't real.Zone of truth is tough to beat (assuming the city is ruthless enough to... persuade silent types to speak up). However, you can use that very reliability against them. The spell glibness is 8th level, making it very hard to come by... but if you have it, you can lie in a zone of truth, and thus introduce false information through a channel that the city thinks is 100% safe.And, of course, you can go on the offense as well. Zone of truth does no good if the caster is under the influence of suggestion to report that everything the subject says is true... or, for that matter, if they're being blackmailed by nonmagical means. Corruption and intimidation are powerful weapons in any syndicate's arsenal.</blockquote>

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