does identifying an item reveal a curse?

Mystendanian · Jan 31, 2004

Just wondering if you find a magic item and it has a curse on it, does casting the identify spell reveal the curse? What about detect magic? Analyze Dweomer?

If none of the above, how is a player to find out a curse on an item other than using it and it becomes too late?

Gregor · Jan 31, 2004

If I recall, Identify will only reveal a cursed item as the item it is pretending to be. Thus, if you find a magic sword and identify it and it appears to be a +3 weapon, that is what the curse is using as its guise. Now, using Analyze Dweomer will reveal that the weapon is in fact cursed.

Hope that helps,

Ottergame · Jan 31, 2004

Identify has a 1% chancer per caster level of the indetifier to detect the curse. Analyze Dweomer always detects the curse.

dark2112 · Jan 31, 2004

Which is found on Pg. 274, just below Table 7-31 in DMG 3.5, for those of you who are looking.

Ottergame · Jan 31, 2004

Sorry, didn't even think to quote the page number, doh!

dark2112 · Feb 2, 2004

Ottergame said:
Sorry, didn't even think to quote the page number, doh!

I've gotten into the habit. As a friend of mine pointed out when we were talking about rarity in comparison to prices, "Everyone has an opinion. That's why no one values them." More or less a quote. (Can't recall the precice wording)

axehand2 · Feb 2, 2004

i think it is opinions are like a#$holes everyone has one and they all stink

Telperion · Feb 2, 2004

dark2112 said:
Which is found on Pg. 274, just below Table 7-31 in DMG 3.5, for those of you who are looking.

Why didn't WotC add this to the spell description in the first place? If it hadn't been for this thread I probably wouldn't have noticed this little detail for a long time...

MichaelH · Feb 2, 2004

axehand2 said:
i think it is opinions are like a#$holes everyone has one and they all stink

I always liked this one, and you can say it almost anyplace: Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has a couple of them, and they usually stink.

dark2112 · Feb 2, 2004

Telperion said:
Why didn't WotC add this to the spell description in the first place? If it hadn't been for this thread I probably wouldn't have noticed this little detail for a long time...

If it wasn't for this thread, I wouldn't have known at all!