Detect Thoughts

Divination (Perception)
Tier: 3
Components: Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time: 1 major action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: 60 ft emanation centered on you.
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute/level
Saving Throw: Spell negates, see text
You close your eyes, and reach out with your mind.

This spell allows you to detect the presence of thinking creatures, and even read their surface thoughts. The amount of information depends on how long you study a particular area or subject.

1st Round
You discern presence or absence of thoughts (from conscious creatures with Intelligence scores of 1 or higher).

2nd Round
You can distinguish the individual thinking minds in the area. You can determine the number of minds (or the rough number, if the area is crowded). At the same time, you can determine the intelligence score of each mind. This spell gives you only an extremely rough idea of the location of other minds relative to you; nearer minds seem somehow louder, and more distant minds quieter, but it is hard to tell more than this.

3rd Round
You can enter the mind of a creature within the area and listen to its surface thoughts. If a target succeeds on its Spell save you cannot read its thoughts, and you must cast this spell again to have another chance. While reading a creature’s thoughts, you focus on them so that you lose the ability to distinguish any other minds in the area. If you cease reading a creature’s thoughts, you must spend a round picking out the minds in the area again before focusing on another.