#Symbol glyphs how to#

There may be an action cost for this depending on your DM, but there is not a resource cost. Symbol is found as a magical effect, but specific spell and effect is normally notįor a standard symbol glyph, it is can be mundanely found via an investigation as you've quoted above. It sounds like the custom symbol of the adventure provides a mechanism to discern the effects.

#Symbol glyphs how to#

Mechanics of particular adventures, dungeons, or stories are instructive as to how to run that particular module.

See a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magicįor example, a book that contains a symbol on the inside cover or one of the pages would have a faint aura around it when detect magic is cast. The use of detect magic could lead to an investigation check, but it does not immediately inform the caster that a symbol is the cause of the aura. The fruit of the investigation is discovering the 'nearly invisible' harmful glyph. Different information yielded by each discovery method Investigation reveals the symbolĪ successful investigation finds the symbol directly, but does not necessarily tell the character that it's a symbol. Providing an additional method of detection does not preclude any other valid methods such as detect magic. The sentence cited provides a method of detecting the symbol. Symbol can be found by detect magic or an investigation.