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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 1946005" data-attributes="member: 6779">Honestly, it varies by item. Potions are usually readily detectable and often labeled. (Really, would you carry around a bag of potions without having them clearly marked so you didn't grab the shrink when you wanted the cure serious wounds?)Wands, again, usually obvious that they are wands ... but what they are wands of is usually a little more tricky to figure out. Some are plain wooden sticks; some are carved into the shape of a lightning bolt; some are a star-on-a-stick with an activation word scribed on the handle...Cloaks / rings / armor / etc. is where it really can be anywhere on the spectrum. I try to vary items a lot, depending on their history and function. A cloak of elvenkind will probably just look like a very well-made cloak until it goes into action, but I did also have one that was essentially marine camo colors, just for variety. A paladin's magic plate is probably very very shiny or possibly even glowing; a ranger's magic leather on the other hand, may just be a serviceable and possibly worn-looking bunch of tatters. As to resizing, that hasn't come up much because I have an all human and half-elf group. Most captured wearable items, magic or otherwise, can be altered to fit without too much difficulty, although there was at least one ring of elemental resistance that visibly shifted its size to fit the person holding it.The players were afraid of that one. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />Which is weird, considering they weren't afraid of the demon-possessed humanbane club they picked up later -- and that one dominated the fighter for the next three sessions!   -The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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