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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7956787" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Rules as Intended? I don't even think that's true. Cause that's just stupid.</p><p></p><p>If someone has a potion of healing on their person then they will <em>never</em> find <strong>anything else</strong> magical that isn't directly out in the open because the potion is filling up the 30' radius of "magic is here" all the time? That makes the spell even more useless than it is.</p><p></p><p>You want to say it's "RAW"? Fine, go ahead. (Of course I think anyone who worries about "only playing by RAW" is silly anyways). But to say that's how the spell is <em>intended</em> to actually work I think is also ridiculous. Because they wouldn't have gone through all the trouble detailing all that stuff that can block the penetration of the spell if the truth was the thing that actually blocked it was any single tiny magical item on the caster's person. It doesn't matter WHAT the barrier is made out of if the aura is blocked from sight and your entire 30' radius pings magical because you have a potion on you. Cause what's more likely to happen in-game that would need detailing in the spell description... the caster having another magical item on them, or items hidden behind walls of stone or lead-lined boxes?</p><p></p><p>But hey... you do you. Nerf it however you want. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7956787, member: 7006"] Rules as Intended? I don't even think that's true. Cause that's just stupid. If someone has a potion of healing on their person then they will [I]never[/I] find [B]anything else[/B] magical that isn't directly out in the open because the potion is filling up the 30' radius of "magic is here" all the time? That makes the spell even more useless than it is. You want to say it's "RAW"? Fine, go ahead. (Of course I think anyone who worries about "only playing by RAW" is silly anyways). But to say that's how the spell is [I]intended[/I] to actually work I think is also ridiculous. Because they wouldn't have gone through all the trouble detailing all that stuff that can block the penetration of the spell if the truth was the thing that actually blocked it was any single tiny magical item on the caster's person. It doesn't matter WHAT the barrier is made out of if the aura is blocked from sight and your entire 30' radius pings magical because you have a potion on you. Cause what's more likely to happen in-game that would need detailing in the spell description... the caster having another magical item on them, or items hidden behind walls of stone or lead-lined boxes? But hey... you do you. Nerf it however you want. :) [/QUOTE]
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