Can you figure out what spell is being cast on you BEFORE you decide whether to make a save?


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Knowledge (arcana) allows you to:

Knowledge wrote:
Identify a spell that just targeted you - DC = 25 + spell level

You are walking down the road and feel a tingle. You're expecting your buddy to scry on you to check up, but are also afraid some ruffian is trying to paralyze and mug you. Can you make a Knowledge (arcana) check to tell what the spell is, and then, depending on the spell, decide whether or not to forgo your save?


Spellcraft: Identify spell as it is being cast DC 15+spell level. You need to clearly see spell being cast, though.

In an example you provided there is not much you can do. Maybe some sort of magic item identifying magic that attempts to affect you on the fly.


Analogy to the FAQ would seem to suggest that if you're expecting to forgo your save vs a scrying, but it turns out to be a hold person, you get to make a save - much as if you drink a potion expecting to forgo your save vs cure light wounds, and it turns out to be poison, you get to make a save.

That said, analogy is a bit shaky.

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