Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 5448942" data-attributes="member: 60886">And Observe Portal doesn't have the severe time limitation to frustrate random scrying attempts.  It's there because WOTC assumes that the players are smart, e.g. they've done some scouting and know the BBEG's lieutenant reports at dinnertime, thus they time the ritual so they can hear about the deployment of the BBEG's army.  With that kind of preparation, even 30 seconds of scyring could be very informative (and worth the cost which is rather small given the level)... one hour of scrying would get them the BBEG's entire plan.It's also a specific limitation intended to break the scry-buff-teleport cycle.  True Portal just needs a specific description of the destination and then it works basically without fail; Forbiddance just shunts True Portals 60 feet off at the most.  Having the response to an epic threat be: Observe Creature (to determine location), True Portal, kill threat is maybe nice once or twice, but every time?  Sure, a creative DM can think of other ways to throw things off, but why force DMs into an escalating arms race of rituals just to maintain a plot?</blockquote>