If you need a spell to let the BBEG wizard track the party, here’s a way to do it that doesn’t require a crystal ball or other scrying device. It doesn’t require summoning a dangerous creature and risking it attacking you. Send a powerful ally or minion after the party.

SPELL IDEA:

If you need a spell to let the BBEG wizard track the party, here’s a way to do it that doesn’t require a crystal ball or other scrying device. It doesn’t require summoning a dangerous creature and risking it attacking you. Send a powerful ally or minion after the party.

Spell Name:

Blood Trail

EFFECT:

Allows the caster or other recipient of the spell to track anyone to a point where they spill blood.

Can be cast on a hired bounty hunter/killer/assassin.

A monstrous creature – either one summoned and bound to service, or an ally of the caster. Perhaps the creature is now an ally of convenience with the caster as the party or other target has plundered both of them.

Undead can also be the spell recipient.

The recipient of the spell can “see” or “know” who was at a site of a fight or battle, and distinguish which side of a fight each participant was on.

Commands, such as, find & kill the minions who were defeated and ran, then bring me the heads of those who defeated them.

Find the winners of this fight and keep tabs on them and report back to me.

Befriend them and betray them to another.

Retrieve what was stolen from me. Do not let them live so they can’t follow you.

DURATION:

Until the command related to the tracking is satisfied, either by the letter or spirit of the command as best fits the mood and personality of the recipient, or until dispelled.

NOTE: While dispel magic will remove the magical ability to track the party, the creature may have other reasons to continue their pursuit.

HIGHER LEVELS:

Improved Blood Trail – The recipient knows the location of the next fight the party will have. They may warn their opponents and help them set an ambush, or wait until the party has fought the other group and strike while they are weakened.

Superior Blood Trail – The recipient can teleport to an advantageous position to observe the next fight and either follow more closely, or attack when most advantageous.

GM NOTES:

Give party hints that they feel like they’re being followed but never see anything. When they defeat some other creature or group, such as a large predator that was tracking them, mention that they still feel like they are being followed.

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