Player wants to make a 'permanent' warding type spell.

[larsenex]

Greetings Paizo and folks,

The party has been running Ashes and it is now 10th level. The Wizard wants to create a spell that does the following >

It is similar to the door-warden found in the 1rst module of Ashes but it does not attack, instead it simply yells out an alarm.
The player wanted to essentially have a permanent alarm spell to place on various exterior walls around Citadel Alaterien.

Would you allow or disallow this and if so why?

I was leaning on him creating the spell but it would be a ritual which takes time (1-3 days) and a certain amount of gold in materials. I have not made a ruling yet.

[Kyrone]

It sounds fine for me it being a ritual.

Lvl 2 Ritual with around 20ft burst and 10GP of cost for each, take 8 hours to make per example.

[Staffan Johansson]

The easy way of doing it would be to use the Animate Object ritual, and have the object be a horn or bell or something. You could probably make it as a level -1 creature. I'd stretch the Success line in the ritual a little, and say that you can command it to sound the alarm instead of attacking whenever someone, subject to simple guidelines, enters a warded area.

[larsenex]

Thank you for the quick replies. The Kobold wizard will be happy.