Arcane Sense Heightening


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I have a question about this feat. It says that it grants you the ability to cast Detect Magic at will as an Innate Spell and shows that you have the higher effect versions through heightening as you gain a higher Proficiency in Arcana.

My question is for the purposes of Counteracting checks does the spell count as heightening to half your level similar to Innate Spells and Cantrips or does it stop heightening at 4th level effectively unable to detect illusion magic and other effects that are a higher level?


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I dunno. Frankly I would just treat as a normal innate cantrip rather than deal with its crappy weird scaling, and intend to do so in my own games.


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Captain Morgan wrote:
I dunno. Frankly I would just treat as a normal innate cantrip rather than deal with its crappy weird scaling, and intend to do so in my own games.

I tend to agree with you on this, and I'll be doing the same. But I did want to get more of a clarification on it from an official source if possible.

Especially considering that if you took it strictly as written and stopped it as a 4th level spell any caster dedication with a detect magic cantrip would be better off both in terms of benefits and scaling.

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