Detect Plant or Beast (4E)

4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons

This is a ritual description page for 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Detect Plant or Beast

Holding your dowsing stick, you think of deer. The stick pulls to towards one, then another.

Level: 1	Component Cost: 10 gp
Category: Divination	Market Price: 25 gp
Time: 1 minute	Key Skill: Nature
Duration: Instant

You can detect a particular kind of beast or plant – either plant creatures or regular growing plants - in a close burst. You must think of a kind of animal or plant when using the ritual. You sense the number of individuals of the specified kind in the area, and the conditions and location of each individual present. The ritual can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of precious metal or lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it. The size of the burst depends on the result of your Nature check.

Nature Check Result	Size of the close burst (typical area)
9 or lower	10 (yard)
10-19	100 (grove)
20-29	1,000 (wood)
30-39	10,000 (forest)
40 or higher	100,000 (country)