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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 1190419" data-attributes="member: 380">Here is the SRD text:"You confer on the subject the ability to see all things as they actually are. The subject sees through normal and magical darkness, notices secret doors hidden by magic, sees the exact locations of creatures or objects under blur or displacement effects, sees invisible creatures or objects normally, sees through illusions, and sees the true form of polymorphed, changed, or transmuted things. Further, the subject can focus its vision to see into the Ethereal Plane (but not into extradimensional spaces). The range of true seeing conferred is 120 feet.True seeing, however, does not penetrate solid objects. It in no way confers X-ray vision or its equivalent. It does not negate concealment, including that caused by fog and the like. True seeing does not help the viewer see through mundane disguises, spot creatures who are simply hiding, or notice secret doors hidden by mundane means. In addition, the spell effects cannot be further enhanced with known magic, so one cannot use true seeing through a crystal ball or in conjunction with clairaudience/clairvoyance."I don't see anything about seeing auras.  You say that Detect Magic could be enhanced by True Seeing, if we use that logic then we oculd say that clairaudience/clairvoyance is also enhanced by True Seeing and not the other way around.  However it is clearly spelled out in the spell description that this does not in anyway work.  Detect Magic and True Seeing gain absolutely no combined benefit.  Detect Magic also nowhere in the spell mentions that you see the auras only that you detect them.  Indeed you can sense them in places  you that surely cannot see as there are rules concerning detecting magic through barriers.  It says, one more time:"In addition, the spell effects cannot be farther enhanced with known magic..."Scrying is used as an example not the end all be all of what is described as KNOWN magics.  I mean that covers a vast field, and certainly anything printed in the core rule books, up to and including Detect Magic.</blockquote>

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