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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uzagi_akimbo" data-source="post: 1636895" data-attributes="member: 15945">Huh, so the governor has a "detect magic" archway ? Wow.... and I suppose no-one going to a governor's ball is going to wear magically enhanced clothing (CHA-Bonus anyone, Deflection and other protective fields , rings of mind-shielding jewellery etc ...). The problem is not detecting it, but sorting it out of the conflagration of magic. Plus - I dare any guard to strip-search some high-born nobility because something is shimmering magically from underneath their clothes... "Duchess Morrinton, would you please undress to the buff, because we are detecting some magical whiffs from your lingery of exstatic bliss ?" That is for a a high-magic, magically aware and financially affluent enough campaign to have such stuff (and run each and every servant, entertainer, pet or household-functionary through such a measure each and every time ). Besides the fact, that to make magical security tight enough to even reap some benefit from such a "magic-detecting arch" you have to Dimensional Anchor the entire area,  use some constant detect invisble and ensure noone is flying, passwalling or polymorphing/wildshaping  her-/himself in - which means there will be half a dozen puls, strong magical fields overlapping each other and add some distinct background radiation to each and every detect magic.... In campaigns of a lesser magical intensity, though all of this is irrelevant. And of course, no-one has ever used or heard of the spells "non-detection" and "misdirection", in any sort of setting, have they ?As for the "grabbing" aspect - sorry, but there is no size or weight limit on the items storable in the glove - grasp that trunk with the enemy's battle plans, fair-sized throne, huge gobelin, magical carpet, 4' diameter flying bronze kettle/mortar of an infamous hag, 50 lbs silver candelabre, pole-arm, battle-field standard, crystal statue of minor divinity which is small but exceedingly heavy (300lbs ?), barrel of wine, knight's saddle or even that oddly ticking magical bomb (who cares for the ticking , its going into stasis inside the glove), if you please ! Thanks, there is a chap..... None of this needs to be motivated be "evil" or selfish motives - and _all_ of these things have happened IMCs, sorry. All of this is stuff I suppose a rogue would face some massive difficulty smuggling out under his cloak/inside his tunic or even getting it into a possible bag of holding - but which can be easily done with a glove of storing. I am not delving into the things possible with subtly pulling things _out_ of the glove - such as vials of poison, loaded heavy crossbows, vials of acid, extraneous holy symbols and unwieldy spell-components.Some campaigns houserule it to store/hold only a certain weight-limit, but then again, that's every GM's personal choice.As it stands the glove is easily on par with a bag of holding and far more versatile.Oh, and noone ever said the price of boots of speed was in any way related to their usefulness. Same goes for boots of striding and springing or, even more dangerous, the Boots of Steadfastness from the A&EG (Always be set against a charge for 6000gp? OUCH !!!). Sorry , but if it's magical footwear, the price is usually far to low in my experience.</blockquote>

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