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Wynna: /* Walls of Force */

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‎Walls of Force

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‎Glyphs and Symbol Traps

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‎Portals

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‎SpellSchool Variables

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‎SpellSchool Variables

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‎SpellSchool Variables: errant capitalized letter

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‎Power of Magic: fixed errant hyphen

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‎School of Magic: fixed an errant hyphen

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‎SpellSchool Variables

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‎Object Automatically Detected By Detect Magic

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 == Walls of Force ==
-Forcefields with "Forcefield" in their names or "forcefield" in their tags are Walls of Force. They will report as Moderate Evocation.
+Forcefields with "Forcefield" in their names or "forcefield" in their tags are Walls of Force. Placeables do not have to be useable. They will report as Moderate Evocation.
 ==Visual Effects==

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 ==Glyphs and Symbol Traps==
-Glyphs of Warding and Symbol Traps can be triggers or placeables. If they contain certain words in their tags they will report as follows:
+Glyphs of Warding and Symbol Traps can be triggers or placeables. Placeables do not have to be useable. If they contain certain words in their tags they will report as follows:
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 ==Portals==
-Portals can be triggers or placeables. If they have "_portal" in the tag, they will report to the caster as Strong Conjuration.
+Portals can be triggers or placeables. Placeable portals do not have to be useable at the time of casting Detect Magic. If they have "_portal" in the tag, they will report to the caster as Strong Conjuration.
 ==Glyphs and Symbol Traps==

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 A builder can add up to three sets of ACR_SPELLSCHOOL, ACR_SUBSCHOOL, and ACR_SPELLPOWER variables to Doors, Placeables, Triggers, and Waypoints to place an aura of any school, subschool and power.
-Sample versions of Doors, Placeables, Triggers, Traps and Waypoints, with the variable slots on them but zeroed out, exist in toolset under the category ALFA_DetectMagic (or ALFA_Traps_Spawn). Builders can change the name, tag, resref, appearance, description of these sample objects to anything. Only the variables are checked by the spell.
+Sample versions of Doors, Placeables, Triggers, Traps and Waypoints, with the variable slots on them but zeroed out, exist in toolset under the category ALFA_DetectMagic (or ALFA_Traps_Spawn). Builders can change the name, tag, resref, appearance, description of these sample objects to anything. Only the variables are checked by the spell. Placeables do not have to be useable.
 To place an aura, only ACR_SPELLSCHOOL and ACR_SPELLPOWER are required. The others are optional and can be left as 0s or empty fields.

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 == Items ==
 ===SpellSchool Variables===
-Like other objects, items can have up to three sets of [https://www.alandfaraway.info/wiki/Detect_Magic#SpellSchool_Variables SpellSchool Variables] added manually, but these should be used sparingly, since Item auras also automatically report based on their item properties. An Item ''can'' have both automatically reporting properties and SpellSchool properties, but use SpellSchool variables only if:
+Like other objects, items can have up to three sets of [https://www.alandfaraway.info/wiki/Detect_Magic#SpellSchool_Variables SpellSchool Variables] added manually, but these should be used sparingly, since Item auras also automatically report based on their item properties. An Item ''can'' have both automatically reporting properties and SpellSchool properties, but use SpellSchool variables only:
-*'''No matching item property:''' A builder wants to add an aura that no item property automatically generates;
+*'''No matching item property:''' If a builder wants to add an aura that no item property automatically generates;
 *'''Cast Unique:''' To supplement the aura information for items with the item properties: Cast Spell: Unique Power, or Cast Spell: Unique Power Self Only, or Cast Spell: On Hit. These properties each call tag-based event scripts that Detect Magic can't read, and which it will report as "This item has a complex aura of arcanity." Add SpellSchool variables to explicate the complex aura.

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 * '''ACR_SPELLPOWER''' (integer)  -- "This catapult has a Faint aura of Evocation (Fire)."
 * '''ACR_SPELLPOWER2''' (integer) -- "This catapult has a Faint aura of Evocation (Fire) and a Moderate aura of Transmutation."
-* '''ACR_SPELLPOWER3''' (integer) -- -- "This widget has a Faint aura of Evocation and Moderate Transmutation around a central core of stored Powerful Abjuration (Evil)."
+* '''ACR_SPELLPOWER3''' (integer) -- "This widget has a Faint aura of Evocation and Moderate Transmutation around a central core of stored Powerful Abjuration (Evil)."

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 * '''ACR_SPELLSCHOOL''' (integer) -- "This catapult has an aura of Evocation"
 * '''ACR_SPELLSCHOOL2''' (integer) -- "This catapult has an aura of Evocation and Transmutation."
-* '''ACR_SPELLSCHOOL3''' (integer)  -- "This catapult has an aura of Evocation and Transmutation around a central core of stored Abjuration."
+* '''ACR_SPELLSCHOOL3''' (integer) -- "This catapult has an aura of Evocation and Transmutation around a central core of stored Abjuration."

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 == SpellSchool Variables ==
-A builder can add up to three sets of ACR_SPELLSCHOOL and ACR_SPELLPOWER variables to Doors, Placeables, Triggers, and Waypoints to place an aura of any school, subschool and power.
+A builder can add up to three sets of ACR_SPELLSCHOOL, ACR_SUBSCHOOL, and ACR_SPELLPOWER variables to Doors, Placeables, Triggers, and Waypoints to place an aura of any school, subschool and power.
 Sample versions of Doors, Placeables, Triggers, Traps and Waypoints, with the variable slots on them but zeroed out, exist in toolset under the category ALFA_DetectMagic (or ALFA_Traps_Spawn). Builders can change the name, tag, resref, appearance, description of these sample objects to anything. Only the variables are checked by the spell.

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-= Object Automatically Detected By Detect Magic =
+= Objects Automatically Detected By Detect Magic =
 Portals, Glyphs and Symbol Traps, Walls of Force, some FX, magical Creatures and Creatures with active spell effects, and Items with standard magical properties will be automatically found by Detect Magic, whether the object is placed in toolset or created on the fly ingame.