bihlbo
Barbary Macaque at the Rock of Gibraltar
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« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2009, 06:42:31 PM » |
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By level 10, if you wanted to avoid cursory tracking, it's pretty much second nature, or you could invest in a cheap magical item that erases your tracks anyway. Now, tracking some joker using magical transportation...how well can someone be tracked in water, stone(earth gliding), wall(spider climbing), air(fly), the Astral(teleportation)? These become extremely common modes of movement as you level, and unless you want tracking to go obsolete entirely, it must allow for these as well.
Scent tracks beings that have been in a location, regardless of how they traversed it. I don't think it should be possible to track someone who is incorporeal/astral, or teleporting without using something like a Ghostbusters-esque ectoplasm residue sensor. |
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Dulce et decorum est pro alea mori
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PhaedrusXY
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« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2009, 07:58:51 PM » |
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By level 10, if you wanted to avoid cursory tracking, it's pretty much second nature, or you could invest in a cheap magical item that erases your tracks anyway. Now, tracking some joker using magical transportation...how well can someone be tracked in water, stone(earth gliding), wall(spider climbing), air(fly), the Astral(teleportation)? These become extremely common modes of movement as you level, and unless you want tracking to go obsolete entirely, it must allow for these as well.
Scent tracks beings that have been in a location, regardless of how they traversed it. I don't think it should be possible to track someone who is incorporeal/astral, or teleporting without using something like a Ghostbusters-esque ectoplasm residue sensor. Well... a little fluff modification could say that Teleportation opens a brief portal, and that scents and other residues could "blow" through from the other side, leaving clues as to where the quarry teleported to. Now that would be appropriate for a DC 60 (or higher) Survival check.  |
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« Last Edit: October 18, 2009, 09:29:04 PM by PhaedrusXY »
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
Sounds like the makings of a gay porn film.
...thanks
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The_Mad_Linguist
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« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2009, 09:27:19 PM » |
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Heck, wolverine can do it.
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veekie
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« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2009, 11:28:11 PM » |
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Follow the ecto impressions?
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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The_Mad_Linguist
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« Reply #24 on: October 19, 2009, 04:27:04 AM » |
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Follow scent trails between dimensions. He can even do it before the the portal forms.
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veekie
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« Reply #25 on: October 19, 2009, 08:57:30 AM » |
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Cool, lets get that a DC too, "Find trail before it is traveled"
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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PhaedrusXY
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« Reply #26 on: October 19, 2009, 09:10:44 AM » |
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Cool, lets get that a DC too, "Find trail before it is traveled"
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
Sounds like the makings of a gay porn film.
...thanks
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veekie
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« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2009, 09:18:41 AM » |
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Well, it's not THAT impossible, if you know the person, his destination, and his starting point, a godlike tracker could find the most likely paths he'd take on his way...and set traps all over all of them.  |
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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