Acabei de instalar um PC em um Devorador de intelecto ("ID") por meio dos IDs. Ladrão de corpo habilidade. Vou deixar o jogador continuar usando o personagem, mas agora o jogador jogará como o CI que controla o corpo do personagem.
Nome, ignorando qualquer contexto. Uma mensagem enviada pelo lançador de um feitiço de envio, tentando entrar em contato com o PC, alcançaria o ID?
O transmissão a descrição do feitiço diz:
You send a short message of twenty-five words or less to a creature with which you are familiar. The creature hears the message in its mind, recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. The spell enables creatures with Intelligence scores of at least 1 to understand the meaning of your message.
You can send the message across any distance and even to other planes of existence, but if the target is on a different plane than you, there is a 5 percent chance that the message doesn’t arrive.
Tenho certeza de que podemos dividir os cabelos pela semântica da qual a mente agora é a "mente da criatura". O que eu quero saber é se existe alguma mecânica rígida que impeça o ID de receber a mensagem destinada ao PC? O personagem não existe mais se seu cérebro se foi?
Em segundo lugar, a mesma pergunta, com o contexto da Waterdeep: Dragon Heist aventura (SPOILERS):
In Dragon Heist, Vajra Safahr is said to normally reach out to people with the Sending spell. Meloon Wardragon is a member of Force Grey and would report to Vajra. However, he is inhabited by an intellect devourer. Surely, Vajra would know something is up with Meloon if Sending exposes that he as no longer present on any plane of existence. Has she not tried to contact Meloon? Has she contacted him and reached the ID instead? Is this just poor oversight on the part of the writers?
Em terceiro lugar, uma questão de como jogar isso como um DM em execução Dragon Heist (SPOILERS):
In my game, the PC in question was originally a member of the City Watch, who would have been a candidate to join the Gray Hands. Vajra would normally use Sending to do this. It will be entertaining for the player to have the ID try to infiltrate the Gray Hands as a Xanathar Guild spy. However, this will not work out if the Sending spell cannot reach the character when they appear to be alive and well. One option is that I could have Vajra just use another means of communication.
Segunda opção:
The other option is to elaborate on how Body Thief works. Narratively, I have said that the ID pulled itself and the PC's mind to a pocket of the outer planes, did some indescribable mingling with it, and reappeared in the Material Plane, inside of the PC's skull. Maybe enough of the PC's mind is there to contact and Sending just works? Or maybe Vajra chats with a non-physical mind in the outer planes (not what I want to do)?