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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2554506" data-attributes="member: 12966">Hmm.  If enlarge person is cast on a human, does s/he become a magical beast?  If grease is cast on a floor or wall, does the wall or floor become magical?  If light is cast on a coin, does the coin become magical?IMC, I would say that the items listed above do not become magical items.  Granted, they will have a magical aura and hence detect as magical, but that doesn't make them magical items, any more than a creature's eyesight telling them a room is empty means that the room really is empty.  It's a matter of appearances.  IMC, magical item is a phrase reserved for objects that are imbued with magic during the creation process.  Even a permanency spell cannot create a "magical item" after-the-fact (although perhaps a wish spell might).If you decide that they are magical, you will have some decisions to make regarding arbitration of detect spells, among other things.  This gets into the same realm as "absolute evil vs. relative evil" and how the detect evil spell works.  Not only is there no clear answer to that, but even the game authors seem to disagree.</blockquote>