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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7644050" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Yes, that would indeed make it a tremendously good spell. It would also make it a pain in the GM's backside, for owing to its range and owing to the general uses you employ it, every time you cast it I can see spending 10 minutes trying to figure out what all you detect.</p><p></p><p>I just read the 1e wording of the spell (after being redirected to see the cleric spell) and it is indeed incredibly vague in its wording and intention. Even looking it up in the DMG to get the additional errata such spells often have only clarifies the one part of the spell that was already clear to me, that it would only find things that were very similar to the thing mentally pictured. Hence I was right that it could not be used to find "gems", because gems are too diverse. However, the clarification only confuses things further, since it doesn't specify what the criteria for similarity should be.</p><p></p><p>I can't really prove that my single object interpretation of the spell is correct because it is so vague, but one big clue though that it only finds the first thing you face at is that not only is the spell "Locate Object" singular, but all the references to the object to be located are singular. For example, you could locate "a flight [of stairs] which closely resembled those he or she pictured in casting locate object". If it was meant to pull all as you put it, I think he would have wrote "all flights [of stairs] which closely resemble..." So I would rule the 1e version pulls the first instance of an object in the direction you are facing and that in very 1e fashion you'd indicate in which direction you started your search and which direction you wanted to turn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7644050, member: 4937"] Yes, that would indeed make it a tremendously good spell. It would also make it a pain in the GM's backside, for owing to its range and owing to the general uses you employ it, every time you cast it I can see spending 10 minutes trying to figure out what all you detect. I just read the 1e wording of the spell (after being redirected to see the cleric spell) and it is indeed incredibly vague in its wording and intention. Even looking it up in the DMG to get the additional errata such spells often have only clarifies the one part of the spell that was already clear to me, that it would only find things that were very similar to the thing mentally pictured. Hence I was right that it could not be used to find "gems", because gems are too diverse. However, the clarification only confuses things further, since it doesn't specify what the criteria for similarity should be. I can't really prove that my single object interpretation of the spell is correct because it is so vague, but one big clue though that it only finds the first thing you face at is that not only is the spell "Locate Object" singular, but all the references to the object to be located are singular. For example, you could locate "a flight [of stairs] which closely resembled those he or she pictured in casting locate object". If it was meant to pull all as you put it, I think he would have wrote "all flights [of stairs] which closely resemble..." So I would rule the 1e version pulls the first instance of an object in the direction you are facing and that in very 1e fashion you'd indicate in which direction you started your search and which direction you wanted to turn. [/QUOTE]
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