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Message: <blockquote data-quote="merwins" data-source="post: 7276375" data-attributes="member: 6829883">This is an inane question. I just wanted to establish that up front. Detect Magic, and in fact many other spells, are stopped by various barriers. Do you rule that the barriers must be continuous to qualify as a barrier? Or are you looking at the total amount of material through the range of the spell? Also, when you "see" the aura, do you have to be able to see the object, or just "sense" it? Consider the following scenario... Spell: Detect Magic. Range = 30 feet. Barriers: 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirtLocation: 5w x 10l foot hallway. Wooden door ahead of youSituation A: Stone walls are 1-foot thick to your left and right. Wooden door is 4 inches thick. Result: You can detect magic within 30 feet straight ahead of you. Left and right detection is blocked by the wall. Situation B: Stone walls are 6 inches thick to your left and right. Beyond the walls is a 6-inch gap, followed by 6 inch thick stone walls again, and then another hallway. Wooden door is 4 inches thick. Result: ??Can you detect magic into the hallways to your left and right? Can you determine the auras of any magic you detect?</blockquote>