Read Magic
(Divination)
Range: 0
| Components: V, S, M
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Duration: 2 rds./level
| Casting Time: 1rd.
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Area of Effect: Special
| Saving Throw: None
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By means of a read magic spell, the wizard is able to read magical inscriptions on objects--books,
scrolls, weapons, and the like--that would otherwise be totally unintelligible.
(The personal books of the wizard, and works already magically read, are
intelligible.) This deciphering does not normally invoke the magic contained in the
writing, although it may do so in the case of a cursed scroll. Furthermore, once
the spell is cast and the wizard has read the magical inscription, he is
thereafter able to read that particular writing without recourse to the use of the read magic spell. The duration of the spell is two rounds per level of experience of the
spellcaster; the wizard can read one page or its equivalent per round.
The wizard must have a clear crystal or mineral prism, which is not expended,
to cast the spell.
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