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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3989232" data-attributes="member: 704">Lets try two possible modifications on a thought exercise.  In one, Teleport is say, a 3 hour ritual, but otherwise identical to the 3rd edition spell.Having Teleport as a ritual that takes a few hours does not quite erase scry and fry, especially if the spell is identical to 3rd edition aside form the casting time.  What it may do is make the tactic a bit harder to pull off at the most optimal time.  Unless your villain is backed up something fierce, i do not think a 3 hour ritual to teleport will catch him on his porcelan throne having a grunt.  But it could catch him when he is in bed for the night.What would likely happen if this is the case is your villain still gets slaughtered most of the time.  However, escape after the deed is much more dangerous.  If you scry and fry the king, you get to deal with the newly promoted prince and whatever other soldiers are on hand to exact revenge.  Not optimal, but better than the original scry and fry.The other scenario has Teleport act as a 3 hour ritual that creates a noise like a jet plane landing on the far end for about, say 10 minutes before the players appear, and renders the people teleported for a further 10 minutes.  In this case, by the time the would be "scry and fry" warriors show up, the villain will have had ample time to ready his defenses and summon his minions.  The players will be the ones that get fried instead of the villain.The tactic is now useless in its original form.  But it is still viable for appearing somewhere near the villains fortress.  You still get to cut down on the travel time to get to the bad guy, and skip all sorts of nastiness in the Evil Wasteland of Player Doom, but you still have to deal with the villains defenses.I am very curious to see exactly how Teleport has been modified.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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