How can I determine which spell(s) exactly are affecting an individual ?

[Quiche Lisp]

I'm trying to make sense of the various spells used to detect, analyze and identify magic items and spells: Detect magic, Identify, Arcane Sight, Greater Arcane Sight (are there others ?).

For magic items, this is straightforward: with the spellcraft skill, one can thoroughly analyze the properties of magical items (barring artifacts).

For spells, this is much more restricted: my current understanding is that if - for example - I wanted to know for sure exactly which spell(s) was (were) affecting one particular individual, I'd have to use Greater Arcane Sight (a 7th level spell)... any other identifying spell would leave me guessing which spell was used on this particular subject.

Have I missed something ?

[Bart Vervaet]

you can use the spellcraft skill to identify a spell as it is being cast, but further than that, nothing I know of

[Torquar]

Quiche Lisp wrote:

For spells, this is much more restricted: my current understanding is that if - for example - I wanted to know for sure exactly which spell(s) was (were) affecting one particular individual, I'd have to use Greater Arcane Sight (a 7th level spell)... any other identifying spell would leave me guessing which spell was used on this particular subject.

Have I missed something ?

Since identifying specific spell effects is exactly what Greater Arcane Sight is intended to do, I'd be surprised if there was a lower level method to do the same thing.

[strayshift]

Sense motive MIGHT possibly have a use to see if an enchantment effect has worked but I'd imagine that would be difficult if you didn't know the person or they were a different race.