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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4657789" data-attributes="member: 29252">So... If I say I'm specifically studying the cone starting 30 feet in front of me and ending 60-feet in front of my while I'm walking and concentrating on the spell, I'm fine and can determine whether or not there is any magic in that range while I travel, but If I don't specifically specify I'm doing so, I can't determine whether or not there is any magic in that range while I travel?  Isn't that sort of like the DM saying you didn't get a spot check to notice the ambush because you didn't specify you looked up?  What does this distinction add to the game?Disable Device specifies an action for making the check, so the addition of "studying" has no impact on what else you can do in the meanwhile - because you're taking a very defined action as part of making the check and doing the studying.The Melee Attack traps specify you need to be doing "nothing else".  Detect Magic does not specify such.  If anything, the distinction on the melee attack trap studying would suggest that Studying is not, in and of itself, an action under most circumstances.  The phrase for Illusions isn't particularly well defined anyway - nor are the game-mechanical effects of making a Major Image of a grown dragon.  Illusions have always had a lot of ad-hock aspects to them.  Likewise, the Wizard Spell Preparation section isn't particularly clear on what studying means.  Otherwise, if anything, studying appears to be reasonably strongly implied to be divorced from actual actions.</blockquote>

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