Hello all! I've got a doubt regarding identifyng spells as per page 305 in the core rulebook. Since Recall Knowledge is untrained, can you just use it with the appropiate skill to identify an spell after this has been cast? (like for example charm?) Can this be done by spellcasters and non-spellcasters? Am i missing anything?
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IMO you can use RK to identify the effects but not the cause. For example, you can use RK to recognize that someone is charmed but you still don't know if this was caused by a spell, a curse, a disease or even love. While with identify a spell could be used to identify what specific spell that caused this effect.
It can be done untrained and by anyone with the appropriate skill. The cost is the action spent to take the Recall Knowledge action. Keep in mind that doing this untrained my also greatly increase the chance of misidentifying the magic entirely with a critical failure.
Note that if you didn't observe the casting yourself and are just trying to determine the spell from the effects (identifying if a person is charmed but not seeing the charming) then you have to use Identify Magic instead of Identify Spell, which works similarly but is an exploration activity that takes 10 minutes.
Perfectly explained, thank you!