Teleport Query

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Tetsubo wrote:
> If you had a photograph or illusion of an individual, could you use
> that to focus on for the purposes of a Teleport spell? Would it be
> consider a Familiar location? Could you use a picture (or illusion) of a
> location to allow a Teleport?

The answer is "no" to all of these questions. You can only Teleport to
a location, not a person or creature (unless, possibly, if that person
or creature is large enough to be considered a location, like Unicron).

> I realize that Greater Teleport makes this question moot.

No, not really. You can't use Greater Teleport to teleport to a
creature either. Just a location.

There is a solution: if you want to Teleport to a person, cast Scrying
on him first. If he fails his save, you will see the location he is in,
and you can then try Teleporting there.

> We did this in an old 1st Edition campaign. We let one of our party
> get arrested for being publicly drunk (he was actually sober) so that
> the party could Teleport into the city jail. I don't think we scryed on
> him at all...

I don't know how Teleport worked in 1st Ed, but this can't be done in
3rd Ed without Scrying (or a crystal ball, or some other method of
seeing the prison).

Laszlo

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:58:10 -0400, Tetsubo <tetsubo@comcast.net>
wrote:

> If you had a photograph or illusion of an individual, could you use
>that to focus on for the purposes of a Teleport spell? Would it be
>consider a Familiar location? Could you use a picture (or illusion) of a
>location to allow a Teleport? I realize that Greater Teleport makes this
>question moot.
>
> We did this in an old 1st Edition campaign. We let one of our party
>get arrested for being publicly drunk (he was actually sober) so that
>the party could Teleport into the city jail. I don't think we scryed on
>him at all...

A character isn't a place. I wouldn't allow it.