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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7252120" data-attributes="member: 12377">Locate object is a good one! It has some big restrictions -- you need to be within 1000 feet, so you'd have to combine it with some legwork to get your investigators close to a group of heroes who might be the perps. But it could still be useful for confirmation.The other big restriction is that to locate a specific object you must have seen the object at least once. In there any way to &quot;see&quot; the crime scene in the past? (Actually a &quot;postcognition&quot; ability would be super useful to magical forensics, in general.) But here's another loophole: if you have a piece of an object, does that count as the whole object for location purposes? For example, if one of the dead goblins is clutching a torn scrap of cloak, can you use locate object to locate the remainder of the cloak, or will it only locate the one scrap that you have seen? A strict rules-wise definition of &quot;object&quot; suggests the latter, but much folklore suggests the former.Same question for locate creature: if you study a bit of humanoid hair, does that count as &quot;looking at the creature up close&quot; so that you can locate the rest of the creature?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7252120, member: 12377"] [I]Locate object[/I] is a good one! It has some big restrictions -- you need to be within 1000 feet, so you'd have to combine it with some legwork to get your investigators close to a group of heroes who might be the perps. But it could still be useful for confirmation. The other big restriction is that to locate a specific object you must have seen the object at least once. In there any way to "see" the crime scene in the past? (Actually a "postcognition" ability would be super useful to magical forensics, in general.) But here's another loophole: if you have a [B]piece[/B] of an object, does that count as the whole object for location purposes? For example, if one of the dead goblins is clutching a torn scrap of cloak, can you use [I]locate object[/I] to locate the remainder of the cloak, or will it only locate the one scrap that you have seen? A strict rules-wise definition of "object" suggests the latter, but much folklore suggests the former. Same question for [I]locate creature[/I]: if you study a bit of humanoid hair, does that count as "looking at the creature up close" so that you can locate the rest of the creature? [/QUOTE]

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