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If you were planning to make the familiar scout but expect it to die doing so, there is always the figment familiar archetype which is in the ultimate wilderness (hardcover).

Insect spies is safer but the information the spell grants is limited (if the insects survive)

Thank you kindly for your answer. The figmet familiar seems really good! Inspect spies is a cool spell but not hardcover, sadly :(

Hi,

I'm going to play with friends a Slumbering Tsar Saga. One of the problem of this campaign is a fact that some locations have CR above the party level.

What is the best way to scout up ahead the room or location to find out what the CR is? Because of the lethality of the encounters and murder crazy GM onboard the team would prefer to not scout personally.

The party:

Wizard 7 lvl
Zen Archer 7 lvl
Cleric 7 lvl
Paladin 7 lvl.

Any advices? Some spells or magic items we missed? Anything except hardcover books is forbidden tho. We are also too poor to waste the familiar. Eventually what spells would be perfect to increase the survivability of scout a.k.a dead body?