Does True Seeing + Detect Magic see through Magic Aura?


Rules Questions


If a creature's magical aura is being negated with the Magic Aura spell, would another creature benefiting from True Seeing, while using Detect Magic, or a similar spell, see the creature's magical aura?

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Seems like it would to me.


Magic Aura only works on objects.


Robert A Matthews wrote:
Magic Aura only works on objects.

Same question, apply it to objects, please.

@ryric: I also think it would, but I would like a definitive answer.


You don't need True Seeing. You only need Detect Magic and to make a will save.

Magic Aura wrote:
If the object bearing magic aura has identify cast on it or is similarly examined, the examiner recognizes that the aura is false and detects the object's actual qualities if he succeeds on a Will save.


Oh I see. Thank you.


It's interpretation, but since Detect Magic<Identify, I'd require identify or up on the magic scale before the Will save kicks in.


BillyGoat wrote:
It's interpretation, but since Detect Magic<Identify, I'd require identify or up on the magic scale before the Will save kicks in.

That's an artifact leftover from 3.5 where you had to use identify to determine the properties of a magic item because Detect Magic did not allow you to do that. In Pathfinder, Detect Magic allows you to identify the properties of magic items and Identify does the same thing as Detect Magic with a +10 to the check.

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