Timeline for Is the "Locate Object" spell limited to 1000 feet for the alternate use or is it unlimited range?
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 21:55 | comment | added | Jack | +1. This is exactly how I parse it, too. In general, a 1000 ft. Two cases. Case 1) known object; case 2) kind of object. Both limited to 1000 ft. You know how you go in a grocery store and you can't find anything? I'd like to have this spell for that. "I harness the powers arcane, now tell me where the bread aisle is!" | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | J. A. Streich | Lokiare, your reaching. I think it is only confusing you because you want to read it to say something it just doesn't say. Your "strangely they then clarify" goes away completely if you change the way you're reading it. And, just to be a pedant: "The", "that", "a" and "an" are all articles and must precede singular nouns -- nothing special about them. I'll add one more thing to my answer that might clarify the situation. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | Lokiare | @SevenSidedDie See my comment above. The specific object is described in the first paragraph. As "Describe or name an object that is familiar to you". Strangely they then clarify that object that is familiar to you in the first sentence of the second paragraph. Then go on to describe an alternate use of the spell. One of the reasons this is so confusing. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Lokiare | @J.A.Streich The "specific object" is referenced via pronoun in the second sentence "THE object" and "THAT object". So in order to read it as 1,000 feet for both you have to mangle the structure and put the second sentence of the second paragraph up near the second sentence of the first paragraph. It just reads really badly. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 21:11 | history | edited | J. A. Streich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 19:19 | history | edited | J. A. Streich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 19:17 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | @Lokiare The specific-object use isn't described in the first paragraph anyway, so the range being in the first paragraph wouldn't imply that it only applies to one use but not the other. Instead its position implies that it applies equally to all uses of the spell. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 18:57 | history | answered | J. A. Streich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |