Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 3175223" data-attributes="member: 19990">OoC:  That's two different things, and a good catch.  First, many Powers have a display, similar to the displays of spells (trails of magical sparks zipping through the air, a low humming noise, whatever).  In this case, the display for Read Thoughts is mental, meaning that anyone affected would hear a chime inside their heads.  Boog will generally attempt to suppress the display of his powers, save in situations where it makes no difference if he is detected or not.  It's a DC15+level of spell Concentration check to suppress a spell, or DC17 in this case.  Did I say Boog was good at making Concentration checks?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Well, let's see how good.  d20+9=<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=727388" target="_blank">12</a>, not quite good enough.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />   The effect is an area effect, and works in a 15' radius that is centered on Boog (this is Boog's choice).  So Boog and anyone standing within 15' of him will hear a chime inside their head.  Read Thoughts works as a 60' cone, so I'll let you decide whether Boog is within 15' of the man, and/or Banion and Beamer.Now, the other part of this is, display notwithstanding, anyone who is the target of a spell or psionic Power and who makes their save vs. that spell or power knows that they've been the target of some kind of magic or psionics.  They do not automatically know who is responsible for the magic, although if there is some guy nearby in robes chanting words of power and making strange gestures, they can pretty much figure it out.  That's where the Bluff comes in...if Boog is trying to get away with something and comes under suspicion, he goes into the "Who?  Me?" routine.  That doesn't apply here yet.Oh, and since Read Thoughts affects a 60' cone, sometimes several people get caught up in the area of effect.  They all get will saves to avoid the scrying, and if they make them, then they know magic/psionics is in use, even if they're too far away to be affected by the mental display.  At this time Boog is not trying to scry on a large number of people, but that might be unavoidable depending on the layout of the warehouse district and how crowded things are right at the moment.</blockquote>

Verification