Detect Thoughts question

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When you cast detect thoughts and try to read the mind of an individual,
they get a Will save to keep you from reading their minds.

Obviously, if anyone sees you casting Detect Thoughts and makes a
Spellcraft check, they will know you have cast it. But what if they don't?

Are they aware that someone is prying into their minds?

Are they aware that YOU are prying into their minds?

What if they make their Will save?

- Ron ^*^

 

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Werebat wrote:
>
> When you cast detect thoughts and try to read the mind of an individual,
> they get a Will save to keep you from reading their minds.
>
> Obviously, if anyone sees you casting Detect Thoughts and makes a
> Spellcraft check, they will know you have cast it. But what if they don't?
>
> Are they aware that someone is prying into their minds?
>
> Are they aware that YOU are prying into their minds?
>
> What if they make their Will save?

I see no reason why this would be handled differently
than the general rule (PHB, page 177): "A creature that
successfully saves against a spell that has no obvious
physical effects feels a hostile force or tingle, but
cannot deduce the exact nature of the attack."

-Bluto

 

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:27:16 -0400, Werebat <ranpoirier@cox.net>
wrote:

>
>
>When you cast detect thoughts and try to read the mind of an individual,
>they get a Will save to keep you from reading their minds.
>
>Obviously, if anyone sees you casting Detect Thoughts and makes a
>Spellcraft check, they will know you have cast it. But what if they don't?
>
>Are they aware that someone is prying into their minds?

Nope.

>
>Are they aware that YOU are prying into their minds?

Well, they might notice the way you are waving your hands about,
muttering doggerel in a dead language to disguise its poetic
inadequacies and staring at them. But if they don't notice that
stuff, they won't notice anything else.

>
>What if they make their Will save?

Makes no difference.

 

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Werebat wrote:
> When you cast detect thoughts and try to read the mind of an individual,
> they get a Will save to keep you from reading their minds.
>
> Obviously, if anyone sees you casting Detect Thoughts and makes a
> Spellcraft check, they will know you have cast it. But what if they don't?

The target feels a "tingle," but they don't know what spell it is and
who cast it. The rule applies to all charms and compulsions.

Silkveraxe.