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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7870119" data-attributes="member: 18">&quot;Familiar&quot; is vague on purpose.Getting super-specific like having to know their face defeats the point of said vagueness and changes the spell into a different but similar spell. Which may be fine but should be carefully considered. I would avoid pinning this down, myself, because the spell does. Further, if you do get specific like &quot;know their face&quot; a giant can of worms opens with shapeshifters and the like. Indeed it could potentially instead become a shapeshifter detector if that road was taken. Which might lead to more house rules and when you have multiple sentences of house rules on a largely harmless low-level spell that didn't previously require any, you probably need to ask yourself some questions! I've been there! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> If they'd spoken to the person in disguise many times, I'd definitely allow it. If they'd met someone briefly in an alley for a few sentences of angry back and forth, I probably wouldn't, disguise or no. I have some NPCs who habitually wear masks in my campaign and the PC are most certainly &quot;familiar&quot; with one of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7870119, member: 18"] "Familiar" is vague on purpose. Getting super-specific like having to know their face defeats the point of said vagueness and changes the spell into a different but similar spell. Which may be fine but should be carefully considered. I would avoid pinning this down, myself, because the spell does. Further, if you do get specific like "know their face" a giant can of worms opens with shapeshifters and the like. Indeed it could potentially instead become a shapeshifter detector if that road was taken. Which might lead to more house rules and when you have multiple sentences of house rules on a largely harmless low-level spell that didn't previously require any, you probably need to ask yourself some questions! I've been there! :) If they'd spoken to the person in disguise many times, I'd definitely allow it. If they'd met someone briefly in an alley for a few sentences of angry back and forth, I probably wouldn't, disguise or no. I have some NPCs who habitually wear masks in my campaign and the PC are most certainly "familiar" with one of them. [/QUOTE]

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