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<blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 6398425" data-attributes="member: 85158">There's a good chance that if the wizard casts Detect Magic on you (spellcraft modifier of +7 at 1st level, success on a 9 or higher, assuming no other bonuses are in play), he knows that it's an illusion spell emanating from your head. In other words, that the hat you are wearing is disguising you. (And that's not even mentioning True Seeing, Arcane Sight or Greater Arcane Sight.)Even if they don't know what the spell is, if someone's suspicious, the fact that you have a spell effect emanating from your head, combined with the fact that Hats of Disguise are known to exist, might cause the suspicious party to ask you to remove your hat/thing on your head.Wearing heavy armor generates noise that can be noticed with passive listen checks. But it also works in reverse -- if you have a cloak on your disguise, or a dress, but aren't wearing either, there will be an absence of swishing sounds. &nbsp;Spot and listen checks are not foolproof ways of seeing through an illusion, but they can. Do you think that refraining from physical contact (handshakes in western cultures are very common) might be perceived as a little strange or suspicious?What? If you change your race, you're definitely changing the rest of your body -- or do you want to be some sort of elf with the burly forearms of a lumberjack/calloused fingers of a martial artist/something else rather incongruous? And if you just change your face, that still doesn't prevent someone from <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#glamer" target="_blank">studying/inspecting your face to disbelieve the illusion.</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dandu, post: 6398425, member: 85158"] There's a good chance that if the wizard casts Detect Magic on you (spellcraft modifier of +7 at 1st level, success on a 9 or higher, assuming no other bonuses are in play), he knows that it's an [I]illusion[/I] spell emanating from your head. In other words, that the hat you are wearing is disguising you. (And that's not even mentioning True Seeing, Arcane Sight or Greater Arcane Sight.) Even if they don't know what the spell is, if someone's suspicious, the fact that you have a spell effect emanating from your head, combined with the fact that Hats of Disguise are known to exist, might cause the suspicious party to ask you to remove your hat/thing on your head. Wearing heavy armor generates noise that can be noticed with passive listen checks. But it also works in reverse -- if you have a cloak on your disguise, or a dress, but aren't wearing either, there will be an absence of swishing sounds. Spot and listen checks are not foolproof ways of seeing through an illusion, but they can. Do you think that refraining from physical contact (handshakes in western cultures are very common) might be perceived as a little strange or suspicious? What? If you change your race, you're definitely changing the rest of your body -- or do you want to be some sort of elf with the burly forearms of a lumberjack/calloused fingers of a martial artist/something else rather incongruous? And if you just change your face, that still doesn't prevent someone from [URL="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#glamer"]studying/inspecting your face to disbelieve the illusion.[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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