ACtually low might demons, infernal objects, infernal auras, and perhaps spell remnants. YEah, it is useless against any mage with parma of 3 (or parma of 2 with decent Vim score) as well as any moderate might demon because ability rolls are so hard.
To get anywhere, you really need to put a lot of skill points into it (such as 75-105 xp for 5-6) plus good perception and perhaps pussiant.
Mind you that any objects or events or anything outside of the shield of magic resistance is easilly spotted. This includes the after effects of spells &/or powers used.
I think we can assume that any rules not in ArM5 no longer apply--though obviously one edition is built on another, each is a new, independent set of rules, and has many features and mechanics that would render the wholesale importation of earlier rules unbalanced. I also can't really imagine a game company releasing a new game and going through every old rule that no longer applies to tell you it no longer applies....
Scott
My hours keep getting stranger!
I was transfered from The Lion Head and I now cooking in an open kitchen in the downstairs bar at Excalibur. Same company. Excalibur is a multli level "mega club" of sorts. It is actually several different nightclubs in one huge uilding. The place is like a csatle. For real! The building dates back over a hundred years (look, for the US in Chicago, that's pretty old, and pre-modern/industrial). Some crazy rich guy bult his house to look like a castle. It has been a bunch of different places, it became Excalibur back in the 80's.
It is a pretty cool place to be. I get to listen to the music and interact with the customers. And I wear a cool black chef jacket!
To shorten my story, the end result is that I don't get off work until almost 5am, home around six. Messes with my mental clock, and I tend to keep the same rythem on my days off 
Oh yeah, and I agree with what Scott said.
There are some things from fourth edition I am willing to bring into 5th with new form. But these should be exceptions, part of a mystery or some such.
In fact, "Careful Casting" sounds like it has interesting potential as a Minor Virtue.
Yes, it's called Cautious Sorcerer, and it's been around for several editions, though the specifics change. It's the now-Minor Virtue that reduces the number of botch dice one rolls.
Thoughtful Caster would be a more applicable designation for someone relying on Concentration.
It is a legitimate in-character phrase. Just not for Lejla because she is Moslem. Unless she is just trying to fit in amongst you infidels, lest you turn upon her. He was probably still in “Marie mode”, who would be more likely to have such feelings.
But in any case, people weren’t politically correct back then. And there was a linguistic competition going on in that day. Mozarab Christians lamented that their children spoke Arabic better than Latin. As far as racial slurs, I hardly think “devilish tongue” qualifies. It was used for drama, by a player who forgot which character he was playing. Antonio has often called the Moors outright devils and dogs, especially in the heat of combat. But some of his best drinking buddies have been devil dogs, so he is cool with that. But even those terms are tame, equivalent to comic books of the old days. In real history, more vulgar terminology would be used even amongst the educated and polite. The devilish tongue may be useful knowledge of course 
Au contraire, mon capitán (not from the Bible, but...). Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos (epistulam ad Romanos VIII, XXXI)
Care to translate that for us that don't speak latin.
see St. Paul's letter to the Romans 8.31
It would be easier and look less like showing off if you'd just tell us.
Scott
Just look it up. I did, and I found it very inspirational.
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If Columbus had thought like you, he would have had to wait for another 120 Mio years (that's how long it will take for the Atlantic to close again, give or take a couple of million years). Scott, one of life's greatest joys can be going somewhere and finding something out for yourself - that's the point of posing riddles.
No, seriously, you're now just (making me angrier), by assuring me that you are indeed pretentious. I don't have time for games, other than the ones I've signed up to play. I've got enough time devoted to discovering new things in political science that I don't need to add to it just because you not only have to write crap in Latin (which, in fact, I took two years of, but can't remember much of), but also refuse to translate it, the only possible reason for which seems to be to demonstrate your intellect.
Scott
I apologize for all my shortcomings
People! Play nicely with one another.
Scott, you are overreacting.
But there has been an apology given, so I presume everythink is okay 
That was sarcasm, not an apology. It was an attempt to demonstrate moral as well as the (already evident, in JeanMichelle's mind) intellectual superiority. And no, I'm not overreacting--I'm making up for all the people who've let JeanMichelle think it's OK to act that way in the past by just ignoring it.
Scott
Let me put this more methodically:
The easiest way to have dealt with the original problem was simply to have written the quote in English. If there was a desire to have the Latin, for flavor, it would have been easy to add a footnoted translation. If JeanMichelle had wanted to educate us about the original source, it would have been easy to provide a translation (after it was requested, if not in the original post) and then note the source.
Given those facts, what purpose is served by this whole pas de deux, other than to communicate that people who haven't read the original text or aren't willing to do so now aren't worthy of JeanMichelle's wisdom?
Scott
you are right Marko: Lejla it is.
I misspelled my own character's name. Five puny letters.
leyla is awesome too. Maybe they are both her name, depending on whether you are speaking in Arabic or Catalan or Spanish.
You need to post the character. She was posted at one point a long time ago, which is why I have a copy.
Which brings me to my next point. I am thinking we need a new Character Sheets sticky. Leave the old one up there for archives, just create a new fresh one cleaned up and organized. Leave off the magi who never played more than a month, and move NPCs to the end of the line (PCs on the front page).