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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 4694955" data-attributes="member: 40176">There's nothing in the rules to support or refute it, but I tend to assume that, unless they're deliberately designed to look mundane, magic items will be recognisably more special than their mundane equivalents - whether due to quality of workmanship, special materials or runes incorporated into the design, or minor sensory effects related to their ongoing properties.Boots of Stealth are designed to help their wearer evade notice, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily built to look inconspicuous in themselves. I'd allow a decent Perception check, or even just a statement that the PC is examining the corpse's possessions, to reveal something unique about the boots. They might be made from the hide of a beast with magical stealth abilities, or have a dedication to a deity of stealth and deception inlaid into their buckles, or maybe they just absorb the light in an unnatural way, appearing matt-black even while they feel like polished leather.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 4694955, member: 40176"] There's nothing in the rules to support or refute it, but I tend to assume that, unless they're deliberately designed to look mundane, magic items will be recognisably more special than their mundane equivalents - whether due to quality of workmanship, special materials or runes incorporated into the design, or minor sensory effects related to their ongoing properties. Boots of Stealth are designed to help their wearer evade notice, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily built to look inconspicuous in themselves. I'd allow a decent Perception check, or even just a statement that the PC is examining the corpse's possessions, to reveal something unique about the boots. They might be made from the hide of a beast with magical stealth abilities, or have a dedication to a deity of stealth and deception inlaid into their buckles, or maybe they just absorb the light in an unnatural way, appearing matt-black even while they feel like polished leather. [/QUOTE]

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