Sending to a sleeping person

[Szordrin]

Can a PC use the sending spell to contact (and receive) a response from a sleeping creature (assuming they are "willing" to respond)? I thought that I read somewhere the a sending to a sleeping person contacts them in a dream-like fashion which wakes them up and are then able to respond. The sending spell drescription doesn't address the issue, anyone know where I might have read this?

 

[Kamard]

I don't think the other character need be conscious to recieve or send back a reply... its a magical correspondence.

 

[Piratecat]

I disagree. It's just like someone talking to you while you're asleep; if you're snoozing and receive a sending, you'll probably miss most (or all) of it, and your response might be, "Huh... what? Who's there? I've got a crossbow! Oh, crap... a sending! I was sleeping, and didn't catch any of that. Could you please resend?"

But hey, it's probably fine either way.

 

[Drawmack]

I know that most of you are not going to buy this argument but my players would.

I would argue that most worlds where cosmology is impotant have a dream plane. Thus when you are sleeping you are in fact mentally on another plane of existence and those rules in the spell description apply. Hence:

If the creature in question is not on the same plane of existence as the character is, there is a 5% chance that the sending does not arrive. (Local conditions on other planes may worsen this chance considerably, at the option of the DM.)

I would rule that local conditions on the dream plane do worsen the situation. Those conditions being that anything, realistic or not, can be going on when you send the message and I'd give the sending a 5% chance to not arrive and an additional 20% chance of the message being misconstrued and forgotten. So a roll of d% 1-5 = failure, d% 6 - 25 = nonsense response.