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Making a small sculpture of the target person with Prestidigitation?
1) You need a connection only if you have no knowledge of the person, but if you can make an image of him from memory you have at least secondhand knowledge.
2) A "crude and artificial" sculpture of someone will not resemble him, I wouldn't consider it a valid likeness.
3) Do you have some appropriate Crafting skills? If your character sculpting is at the level that he can make a snowman, making a credible likeness of someone from memory is impossible.
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Using prestidigitation to create a likeness of someone is like drawing a stick figure and calling it a likeness of Mona Lisa.
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Which you can do, you'll just scry the stick figure drawing instead of actual Mona Lisa.
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Which you can do, you'll just scry the stick figure drawing instead of actual Mona Lisa.
No, you won't. Scrying spy creatures, not objects.
You can observe a creature at any distance.
plus, it doesn't say anything about scrying the wrong target. So, if you try to scry Anne, you either scry Anne or you don't scry anything, you will not scry Bob.
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Which you can do, you'll just scry the stick figure drawing instead of actual Mona Lisa.No, you won't. Scrying spy creatures, not objects.
You can observe a creature at any distance.plus, it doesn't say anything about scrying the wrong target. So, if you try to scry Anne, you either scry Anne or you don't scry anything, you will not scry Bob.
You might scry the wrong Anne though… if you are attempting to scry someone you have next to no knowledge of and have never actually seen or met anyways… depends on your GMs disposition…
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You might scry the wrong Anne though… if you are attempting to scry someone you have next to no knowledge of and have never actually seen or met anyways… depends on your GMs disposition…
If you have no knowledge of the person you need a link, so I think it is possible to target the wrong person or creature if the link is the wrong one. Probably not with a likeness, as it has no direct link to the wrong creature (unless you have been purposely misled) and, generally, you will search for someone more defined than "Anne".
Effectively, if someone is ransacking a mansion, find a painting of a woman resting on the floor and a plate on the nearby wall that says "Lady Anne" he can wrongly assume that the woman in the painting was Lady Anne and scry the wrong person, but, while mislabeling isn't that uncommon in RL, in-game requires a conscious decision on the GM part.
Distributing false images of himself isn't a bad tactic for a villain. ;-)
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You might scry the wrong Anne though… if you are attempting to scry someone you have next to no knowledge of and have never actually seen or met anyways… depends on your GMs disposition…Which you can do, you'll just scry the stick figure drawing instead of actual Mona Lisa.No, you won't. Scrying spy creatures, not objects.
You can observe a creature at any distance.plus, it doesn't say anything about scrying the wrong target. So, if you try to scry Anne, you either scry Anne or you don't scry anything, you will not scry Bob.
Now I've got this vision of somebody using Scrying who doesn't quite understand how it works, and they end up scrying an Order of the Stick character . . . .
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If you have the skill to make the roll, why do you need the spell?
The prestidigitation spell contains the phrase: Finally, prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects.
And as there is the 1st level spell Instant Portrait I would say that prestidigitation is not able to create a picture of a person at all.
Wether a picture created with instant portrait would be good enough for scrying is another question as it is of "too poor a quality to sell".
There is a third possibility as to whom said painting would act as a link for… the current owner of said painting… if the painting is a prized possession of an individual it would act as a strong link to that individual if used for scrying.
As to the above about using prestidigitation to create artwork provided you expend the time needed for a standard craft check… while you could try to bend the rules of prestidigitation to get that result, the spell does still very clearly state it can only make crude objects and images. By RAW it doesn’t work.
^Another possibility is that since the painting is of somebody in disguise, the scrying might lock in on whoever the disguise was patterned after. Bonus points if something else coincidentally matches up for the spell to latch onto -- now the scryer is looking at Lebowski, but it's the wrong Lebowski . . . .
Perhaps try a different tack. I've used prestidigitation for my bard as a way to create an obvious illusion (think of it as a hologram) of a person or object (a ship for example). Small, nothing bigger than a breadbox, see-through, but a definite likeness. No sounds, no smells, no tactile sensation, obviously not real...but looked decent. Perhaps a similar idea will work for you? See the image of the Jedi Master, can now recognize him to scry him?