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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4658384" data-attributes="member: 29252">Perhaps I'm not communicating clearly.  Earlier, you said:And If you can "study" an area while concentrating on the spell and moving, and all penalties associated with Concentrating to maintain the spell are exactly identical to the ones associated with Concentrating on the spell while studying an area, and the spell itself checks an area, what's the point of requiring the player to specify they're "studying the area in front of them" as they're advancing, as opposed to simply asking which direction they're pointing the spell?  You've been repeatedly making a distinction between "studying" and "looking in a direction" - and treating the word "study" as something other than flavor text.For an exageration to illustrate a point, do you require your players to specify that they open their eyes in the morning?  After all, the game does make a distinction between having your eyes open and having your eyes closed under <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#gazeAttacks" target="_blank">Gaze Attacks</a>.  It's exactly the same type of requirement, just to a different degree of severity, as requiring a player who's using Detect Magic to explicitly say he's "studying the area" rather than letting him specify it with "looking with Detect Magic", "pointing the Detect Magic area ahead of the party", "concentrating on Detect Magic ahead of the party to watch for magical traps" "concentrating on detect magic ahead of me" or some other plain-language equivalent.  What's the why of the distinction?  What does it add to the game?</blockquote>

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