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For story reasons, I want to give the party an item that will alert them to scrying attempts. However, I'm wary of giving them each an amulet of proof against detection and location as I feel it has the potential to be abused.
What are your thoughts on the following as an alternative? Is it too powerful/weak to be an uncommon item? Is it harsh to require attunement? Thanks in advance for constructive criticism!
>Amulet of Divination Detection
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>Wondrous item, major tier, uncommon (requires attunement)
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>While wearing this amulet, you become immediately aware of any attempts to be observed with divination magic. You are not immune to divination attempts, however, and the divination spell otherwise functions normally. The target of a scrying spell, for example, must still succeed on a Wisdom saving throw in order to resist the spell's effect.
Hey Hivemind,
I have two questions about the following item:
>'Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location'While wearing this Amulet, you are hidden from Divination magic. You can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical Scrying sensors.
First question:It says that I am hidden from Divination magic & can't be targetted by such magic. Now, if someone were to scry on one of my party members and look around, would I still show up in the scry or would I be 'invisible' to them? I am not sure if the 'Scrying' spell would be considered a Scrying sensor since it is a spell.
Second question:I can't get targetted by them, so if I were to be invisible and someone cast See Invisibility, it wouldn't work on me right? But if they were to cast a spell, like Mind Spike, will I still take the damage even though the spell has no effect on me?
Thank you for helping me out!
I'm a pretty new player to 5e only a few sessions in and having a blast with my group! In random loot during our last session my archfey warlock received an Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location which at first sounded amazing because he relies on invisibility a lot to sneak in and cause fear with fey presence at the start of battles and it would protect him even from spells like See Invisibility.
The text of the item is as follows:
Wondrous Item, uncommon (requires attunement)
While wearing this amulet, you are hidden from divination magic. You can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Does this mean that I am protected against Divination magic even cast by myself on myself? Am I, for instance, unable to invoke Eldritch Sight which allows my character to cast Detect Magic at will while wearing it? Am I unable to cast Guidance (picked up through Pact of the Tome) on myself while wearing it? And if I am, would it end the effect of those spells if I were to take it off, cast them, and then put it back on while they're still active? This feels severely limiting, especially until I'm able to level and trade out invocations.
I know that this is something I should talk to my DM about, but how does this item behave RAW wise? Am I worrying about something unnecessarily?
I have the BBEG in my campaign wearing this amulet. He has been in contact and a companion of the group since the opening of the campaign. He is supposed to be a sorcerer with the Great Old Ones (Cthulhu) who he is trying to bring forth towards the campaign endgame... if it goes according to plan obviously. I didn't want the group accidentally picking up on certain things unintentionally with detect magic or other types of divination like scrying. Question i came here to ask though is... a lot of times I have him manipulating their dreams or sending illusions/images etc. No one has used detect magic yet, thinking they are asleep still, but I'm wondering... if he casts these illusion spells, would his magic be protected from divination spells from being detected? Or is it him specifically?
I've been researching this for a while and what I'm getting is there are different ways of reading the rules, especially considering changes between editions. Ultimately I can make this decision myself, but I'm curious how other DMs (especially those with more experience) would handle this.
The situation is this: one of my players multiclassed to warlock, after making a pact with Asmodeus due to plot stuff. Her character has had mixed feelings about it the whole time, and finally confessed what happened to the rest of the team, admitting that she doesn't want to do what Asmodeus says anymore. As per the terms of the pact, she's not allowed to take more warlock levels until she completes certain tasks for the archfiend, and at the same time I won't remove her warlock powers for not working for him anymore (though he definitely wants to pressure her into it).
The party found the aforementioned amulet earlier, and this player attuned to it. She wants to know if it'll stop Asmodeus from hounding her in her dreams... and I honestly don't know. Would a warlock's patron be immune, since they might not need to use divination spells to find their warlocks? Is appearing to someone in their dreams a divination trick?
Would the amulet protect a character against this? It’s not clear what type of magic Read Thoughts is but the Amulet says the wearer cannot be targeted by Divination Magic.
I've made a basic application using Unity3d and their ML platform (which I believe utilises Tensorflow) that effectively lets two AIs play tennis against each other (badly right now). Eventually I would like to be able to train it to predict where a ball will be hit by actual tennis players by feeding data of their past shots.
The system requires 3d positioning data of the ball and 2d positioning of the players. I believe that means I need at least 2 cameras working in stereo, and more if I want the ball to be tracked precisely.
Since a tennis court is quite big I've either got to try a USB3 camera system with a stereo setup, or put cameras all around the court using GIGE Vision.
How taxing is this stuff on a computer to detect and approximate the ball and players' locations? Obviously the higher frame rate and resolution, the more difficult it will be to do real time but since I have no experience with machine vision I'm not sure what sort of system I should be pushing for.
A tennis ball can go at 200km/h so I'm thinking frame rate will be important. I've used a little on net device that operates at 30fps and tries to track the ball. It is accurate to about 10cm from what I've seen which might be enough, and it does that with only one camera per side of the court.
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In my campaign, one of my players doesn't like that the BBEG knows who he is and wants to prevent the BBEG from scrying on him, so he wants to obtain an amulet that prevents that. > Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location
> Requires Attunement
> While wearing this Amulet, you are hidden from Divination magic. You can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical Scrying sensors.
I'm concerned for game balance. I can see that he's motivated, and he's a former DM, he researched the amulet and don't want to dishonor the time and effort that he's placed in figuring this out. But, I'm concerned about the long-term issues that comes with permanently removing scrying from affecting his character, story-wise.
He brought it to my attention that according to the DMG, page 150, this object is uncommon, and according to the DMG, page 135, that means it costs no more than 500 gold pieces.
Sane Magical Item Prices prices this item at 20,000 gold pieces, and in 3.5e, this item was priced at 35,000 gold pieces.
Which leads me to another question; why, in 5e, is an item that was so previously expensive, suddenly so inexpensive and common? What is the shift from 3.5e forward that caused this item to be classified as such, or is its commonality (at this point, my party is 5 level 11 players, so uncommon items should be actually somewhat common) a mistake in 5e?
If I do provide such an item to my players (because I am uncomfortable with giving a flat no to my players, and I'm sure that there's some way to allow him to obtain what he's after while retaining game balance), how could it be handled? I recently watched a D&D show where a similar ring was given to the players and they were level 19 at the time, and I happen to agree with an item being rated so powerfully.
What do you all think? Have you handled this before, and if so, how?
As the title states, I'm trying to determine if an Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location worn by a Vampire Spawn would prevent the vampire from exerting their control over the spawn. The thinking behind this is that to be able to control the spawn, the vampire would need to be able to detect and/or locate the creature. Or is their connection more of a direct thing that cannot be circumvented by any means?
Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide says not, Sword Coast Adventurers' Guide is non-commital. Don't have Dragon Heist. Does anyone know where canon stands on this? Thanks :)
As I understand it, the uncertainty principle says that you can't know a particles exact location because when you measure it with a light beam you change it's energy. Or a low energy beam won't change the position much but the wavelength of the light will make it hard to know where it actually is. So why can't you cool a particle to 0K and then feed it an exact amount of energy from a light source that projected it into a detection plate? Then you'd know the particles energy (energy fed to it) and it's exact location, as detected on the plate.
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Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location
If you are wearing it and some one casts Detect magic, would they detect nothing or there will be an aura arround the amulet?
