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Re: detect curse



"Eric Mehlhaff" <mehlhaff@crl.com> wrote:
> "Rupert G. Goldie" <rgg@aaii.oz.au> recently wrote:
> 
> >> Any idea why detect curse is 11th level?  Remove curse is 8th.  All the
> >> other detect spells are 1st through 3rd. 
> >11th does seem rather high. Detect curse does make things a lot easier 
> >of course, because if you know something is magical and uncursed, you
> >might as well use it to try it out. Maybe it should be 5th level and stay
> >at 10sp ?
> 
> Doesn't the identify spell determine if something is cursed?  I agree,
> detect curse should be around second level.

The differences make the detect curse much more wanted spell then the identify.
 - it is fast and doesn't use much mana
 - it makes the identify last half the time if you are using identify spell
   if you are using scolls you use only half the normal amount.
 - you can still sell the item and get money

So I think there are very good reasons for it to be high level spell the same
way as remove curse or anything else that has to do with curses are.  After
all magic and curses are in a way "different areas" so it is hard to use magic
for anything that consernes curses.