Divine VS Arcane and read magic

[tomf]

Last night the group found a wizards spell book and the Cleric used the spell read magic of his divine spell list.(There was a sourcerer there but he failed most of his spell craft rolls and manged to identify only 1 of the spells in the book)
Would the read magic of his Divine list read Arcsne text?

[Starglim]

I don't see why not. Read magic would tell him what spell it was, and that he couldn't cast it.

It might be reasonable to restrict the depth of information provided by Spellcraft checks, though, for divine casters checking against arcane magic and vice versa.

[GâtFromKI]

tomf wrote:

(There was a sourcerer there but he failed most of his spell craft rolls and manged to identify only 1 of the spells in the book)

He doesn't need to roll any check if he uses read magic.

[Purplefixer]

Regardless of who casts it, Read Magic identifies and deciphers all magical writings, whether spell-books or scrolls. The cleric can't cast them, but he can tell you what each and every spell is, and even very carefully write the name in the margin so the sorcerer can then learn them when he levels up. Even if they're rare/custom spells (which is technically the only way Sorcerer's can ever take that kind of spell).

[tomf]

The saucerer failed his spellcrsft rolls so the cleric used read magic on the book and as a group we wernt sure if he could.

[Abraham spalding]

Unless the guy makes rare and incredible good gravy out of his opponents he's a sorcerer not a saucerer.

[Midnight_Angel]

Abraham spalding wrote:

Unless the guy makes rare and incredible good gravy out of his opponents he's a sorcerer not a saucerer.

Care to explain that to my Disco Bandit?

*runs for cover*