
Stephen Ede |
The scrying speel modifys the will save based on how well you know your target.
What constitutes "Met".
Knowledge of the subject -
"Firsthand (you have met the subject) +0"
"Secondhand (you have heard of the subject) +5"
For example you were in a room with a number of people but you neither talked with them or remember them.
As above but you were in a joint conversation but you have no recollection of them beyond "yeah, there was a third person in the conversation but can't remember anything other than the fact that there was someone".
You pass them on a street with no intereaction or awareness (I have both walked past people I know and had them walk past me with one of us having no awareness of the other unless physical interaction or shouting at the unaware person).
On the other side of a door or wall from someone, possibly with a few words exchanged (Person A - "I have a summons for you", Person B - "Go away or I'll call the police").
You fought an invisible person for 1 combat round.
You were 50' away from a glitterdusted invisble person in combat for a round before they ported away.
What do people think?
Met, not met, or something inbetween, i.e. a penalty somewhere between 0 and -5.
Thanks

avr |

IMO
In a room with them, neither talked to nor remember: not met, not even heard of them from this alone.
Talked to but don't remember them: not met, not even heard of them from this alone.
Passed with no interaction or memory: not met, not even heard of them from this alone.
On the other side of a wall/door with a few words exchanged: met.
On the other side of a wall/door with no words exchanged: not met, not even heard of them from this alone.
Fought someone invisible for one round: not met, maybe heard of.
Seen them glitterdusted but otherwise invisible for 1 round: not met, maybe heard of.
If the invisible person left anything behind - blood for example - you could mitigate the save bonus via 'Body part, lock of hair, bit of nail, etc. -10' though.
In several of these cases there should be someone else who can prompt you enough to meet the 'heard of' threshold. I edited the above after rethinking BTW.