Sending

Sending

Caster Level(s): Sor / Wiz 5, Clr 4, Trade 3
Innate Level: 5
School: Evocation
Components: Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time: 5 minutes
Range: See text
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round; see text
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

You contact a particular creature with which you are familiar and send a short message of twenty-five words or less to the subject. The subject recognizes you if it knows you personally (and only then). It can answer in like manner immediately. A creature with an Intelligence score as low as 1 can understand the sending, though the subject's ability to react is limited as normal by its Intelligence score. Even if the sending is received, the subject is not obligated to act upon it in any manner.
If the creature in question is not on the same plane of existence as you are, there is a 5% chance that the sending does not arrive. (Local conditions on other planes may worsen this chance considerably.)

The correct form for sending a message is: <Recipient Name> + [space] + "Message:" + [space] + <Message>. The sending will then be sent by tell to the recipient who also receives notification of the terms that a sending spell uses. Deviation from these terms (or the spell description) is considered metagaming unless sanctioned by a DM. If you do not copy this format you will receive an error message saying you used an improper formula.

Gameplay Notes

You get the error message if you don't follow the above format. Leave out <> and [] and + and ""

Eg. Yvette the Sorceress wishes to contact his usual mercenary dwarf bodyguard Boris Greybeard about a new work contract. The following must be typed in the chat screen after casting the Sending spell:

Boris Greybeard Message: Hi Boris, I've got some more work for you at the Friendly Arm Inn; please meet me there.