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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coredump" data-source="post: 6531666" data-attributes="member: 6939">Even if you play in a very different setting than Celebrim... the ability is a joke.Lets say you are 'lucky' enough to be going about your Ranger business in your favored terrain.... and the nearby wise woman had a vision that the dead were restless and would soon walk the earth again.  Hmmmm... better check it outSo you burn a spell slot and find out  "Yep there are undead"Where?  Well somewhere in a *113* sq mi area....  and it might be one zombie still stuck in his coffin, or it might be 12 liches leading 12 deathnights and their 1000 wraith army... they might be north, or south, or east, or.... well they could be all over.You could travel several miles and try again... and you get the undead 'ping' again.... but you don't know if it is the same undead, or a new one, or some of the same ones, or..... And lets not forget, in the hours it took you to travel that distance, the undead may have also moved....You are looking for a cult, you come across a village, and 'ping' you detect a fiend.  It *might* even be in the village... or a mile in a different direction... or a warlocks familiar that is just passing through....With no info about numbers, nor direction, nor strength.... its just not useful except in some rare and contrived situations.  And in you 'favored' terrain, it is *worse*.</blockquote>