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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6088823" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>...except for Pathfinder, which, semantics aside, is a version of D&D, and arguably the most popular version in print right now; in PF, detect magic is at will, and it really doesn't affect 3.x style play very much in my experience. I'd hazard a guess that, though it might affect your groups style of play as you describe, it isn't the rule for the majority of groups out there. For every group I've been in, what ended up happening is similar; e group would gather any items that looked conceivably magical, and would cast detect magic on the whole pile at one time. Someone pinging detect magic / arcana skill 24x7 is theoretically possible, but in practice its real end result is speeding up game play and lessening the "gotcha" aspects of players who forgot to check that the spoon in the orc's gruel in the guardroom was really a Murlynd's spoon, and the pus-picker on the ettin's corpse was really a dagger +1. Some players liked it, but most I'd wager don't, which is why even paizo's version minimizes this aspect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 6088823, member: 158"] ...except for Pathfinder, which, semantics aside, is a version of D&D, and arguably the most popular version in print right now; in PF, detect magic is at will, and it really doesn't affect 3.x style play very much in my experience. I'd hazard a guess that, though it might affect your groups style of play as you describe, it isn't the rule for the majority of groups out there. For every group I've been in, what ended up happening is similar; e group would gather any items that looked conceivably magical, and would cast detect magic on the whole pile at one time. Someone pinging detect magic / arcana skill 24x7 is theoretically possible, but in practice its real end result is speeding up game play and lessening the "gotcha" aspects of players who forgot to check that the spoon in the orc's gruel in the guardroom was really a Murlynd's spoon, and the pus-picker on the ettin's corpse was really a dagger +1. Some players liked it, but most I'd wager don't, which is why even paizo's version minimizes this aspect. [/QUOTE]
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