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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6542090" data-attributes="member: 5143">I can't remember the particular book again but the only real guidance I've seen in ANY edition about how loud spells are was one book in 3.5e.&nbsp; I'm working from memory here...someone else with the book who can remember where it comes from should chime in and correct me with real numbers.However, it said that all spellcasting was immediately recognizable as spellcasting from something like 60 feet away because the somatic components were so drastic,&nbsp; obvious, and intricate that anyone looking at you knew it was a spell.&nbsp; Also, the verbal components needed to be loud enough to be heard or the spell didn't work properly.&nbsp; It allowed you a skill check to reduce the range that spellcasting could be identified at to 15 feet or something like that.&nbsp; But it was impossible to make spellcasting more subtle than that without metamagic.I still use these as general guidelines when determining how obvious casting is in 5e, given no real other guidance on the topic in the 5e books.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6542090, member: 5143"] I can't remember the particular book again but the only real guidance I've seen in ANY edition about how loud spells are was one book in 3.5e. I'm working from memory here...someone else with the book who can remember where it comes from should chime in and correct me with real numbers. However, it said that all spellcasting was immediately recognizable as spellcasting from something like 60 feet away because the somatic components were so drastic, obvious, and intricate that anyone looking at you knew it was a spell. Also, the verbal components needed to be loud enough to be heard or the spell didn't work properly. It allowed you a skill check to reduce the range that spellcasting could be identified at to 15 feet or something like that. But it was impossible to make spellcasting more subtle than that without metamagic. I still use these as general guidelines when determining how obvious casting is in 5e, given no real other guidance on the topic in the 5e books. [/QUOTE]

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