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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9194081" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Or, classic thing: Rescue plot.Cast scrying. You instantly know exactly where the victim is, as the target of scrying can intentionally fail the save. You can then spend ten minutes carefully examining the area, followed by casting teleport. You are by definition &quot;very familiar&quot; with the location, having just spent ten minutes memorizing details about it directly with your own senses: &quot;a place you have carefully studied.&quot;It also works if it's a big bad you've already met/fought and have some kind of physical connection to (e.g., a statue, portrait, or drawing of them, or even better a possession of theirs) or especially if you have an actual sympathetic link like a lock of hair or one of their nail clippings (though that is, naturally, harder to get.) It even explicitly mentions the use of scrying in order to teleport somewhere in the spell text of teleport (by way of saying that, if you had viewed an illusion, it could interfere with your efforts.)So...yeah. Tracking down a lost ally? Completely obviated by two spells. Three, I guess, if you want to then escape the same way.Scrying and other divination magic is quite good at getting you to know where you're going quickly.I was already presuming high-level characters. That was the point of the thread; high-level characters break open the math of the game. All you need is two casters that can cast teleport, one of whom can also cast scrying. Bard, Sorcerer, or Wizard can all cast either one, as can Arcana Clerics. Wizard is naturally best (as it is at most spellcasting things), but the other options are also valid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9194081, member: 6790260"] Or, classic thing: Rescue plot. Cast [I]scrying[/I]. You instantly know exactly where the victim is, as the target of [I]scrying[/I] can intentionally fail the save. You can then spend ten minutes carefully examining the area, followed by casting [I]teleport[/I]. You are by definition "very familiar" with the location, having just spent ten minutes memorizing details about it directly with your own senses: "a place you have carefully studied." It also works if it's a big bad you've already met/fought and have some kind of physical connection to (e.g., a statue, portrait, or drawing of them, or even better a possession of theirs) or [I]especially[/I] if you have an actual sympathetic link like a lock of hair or one of their nail clippings (though that is, naturally, harder to get.) It even explicitly mentions the use of scrying in order to teleport somewhere in the spell text of [I]teleport[/I] (by way of saying that, if you had viewed an illusion, it could interfere with your efforts.) So...yeah. Tracking down a lost ally? Completely obviated by two spells. Three, I guess, if you want to then escape the same way. [I]Scrying[/I] and other divination magic is quite good at getting you to know where you're going quickly. I was already presuming high-level characters. That was the point of the thread; high-level characters break open the math of the game. All you need is two casters that can cast [I]teleport[/I], one of whom can also cast [I]scrying[/I]. Bard, Sorcerer, or Wizard can all cast either one, as can Arcana Clerics. Wizard is naturally best (as it is at most spellcasting things), but the other options are also valid. [/QUOTE]

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