Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

Deathgrowl wrote:No. Don't think you can be a radio station for specific minds.

And it seems unlikely, at least for arcanists. Would be a bit OP as well. I can see a cleric being able to send a message to all fellow followers of his god within a radius, though.

Storm Munin wrote:@carski

Dominate someone who knows the person and have them send for you?

Carski wrote:Anyone have an idea or example for a legitimate way a mage (sorc/wiz) could leave a message or send out a general communication to other mages, but such that only those of likemindedness or sensitivity to the Art, would receive it? Something like a weave-based message board? How to mages secretly communicate, indirectly?

How about the possibility of a Weave sensitive of good morality hearing a message that is of evil context, but consciously ignoring it, because it sounds, well…evil?

Carski wrote:But what I am asking for in this Lore Assistance thread is whether there exists an arcane or weave-based underground railroad, where magic itself provides a secure means of communication? Secure being relative, since if some overly curious mage wants to search out the call, I am not opposed, either.

Summoning Wind
(Complete Arcane, p. 124)

Transmutation
Level: Wu Jen 5,
Components: V, S,
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: 10 miles/level
Target: Up to 10 creatures/level
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

You send a message or sound on the wind to a number of specific creatures that you identify while casting the spell. You need not directly know the recipients, but you must be able to distinguish them by their location, position, or some feature other than race or character class. For example, you could send a summoning wind to the soldiers of your palace guard or to the governors of all the provinces in the empire, provided you know that such characters exist.

You can prepare the spell to bear a message of up to twenty-five words, cause the spell to deliver any other normal sounds for 1 round, or merely have a summoning wind seem to be a mysterious stirring of the air. The wind travels to each recipient provided that it can find a way from you to their locations (the wind can travel around virtually any obstacle, but can't pass through closed portals or windows, regardless of whether they're airtight). You choose its speed (from as slow as 1 mile per hour to as fast as 1 mile per 10 minutes), but the summoning wind is as gentle and unnoticed as a zephyr until it reaches the recipients, where it delivers its whisper-quiet message and dissipates.

Valefort wrote:

Summoning Wind
(Complete Arcane, p. 124)

Transmutation
Level: Wu Jen 5,
Components: V, S,
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: 10 miles/level
Target: Up to 10 creatures/level
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

You send a message or sound on the wind to a number of specific creatures that you identify while casting the spell. You need not directly know the recipients, but you must be able to distinguish them by their location, position, or some feature other than race or character class.

Complete Mage, page 7-8 wrote:Demons:
Perhaps surprisingly, few demonic powers are responsible for the pacts that create warlocks. As any planar scholar would tell you, demons fixate on rampant destruction over planned corruption, which means that most don't have the interest (or talent) required to broker such deals. (...)

Fey:
A growing number of warlocks draw their power from the mystical realm of faerie. Fey have always enjoyed a special link to the magical energy that suffuses the natural world, and most sages agree that mortals - even the long-lived elves- can't begin to comprehend the sheer untapped potential that rests within faeriekind. (...)
A feyblooded warlock is equally likely to be a well-meaning chaotic good, an unpredictable chaotic neutral, or a coldly malevolent neutral evil individual. (...)

Slaadi: (this is my favourite! )
As beings of pure chaos unconcerned with matters of morality, few slaadi care enough to make pacts with mortals. Some of the most potent of them, however, such as the mightiest of the death slaadi, occasionally empower warlocks for their own unfathomable reasons. Warlocks whose power derive from the slaadi can be of any alignment, but most are chaotic.

Celestials:
The mere suggestion that the paragons of virtue would grant such dark powers to mortals seems at first to be unworthy of discussion. However, some particularly wild or chaotic celestials, such as the eldarins, share more in common with the fey than with archons or angels. Is it so inconceivable that the mighty denizens of the Court of Stars (the eldarin lords detailed in Book of Exalted Deeds) might see fit to share some fragment of their power with charismatic mortals?
A warlock who has celestial power to thank for his invocations is most likely to be chaotic good, though such power has also been known to corrupt even the most well-meaning soul. For another take on a celestial-themed warlock, see the enlightened spirit prestige class (page 60).