Detecting Enemies and Permanency

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Hello all,

My party recently had the good fortune to find a Wand of Detecting Enemies, but we have a couple of questions about how it’s supposed to work.

First, we have interpreted the text as meaning that enemies can be detected through walls / ignoring line of sight, out to the range of the spell. Is this correct?

Second, the party wizard recently found a Scroll of Permanency, and wants to do spell research to create the spell Detect Enemies, acting as the wand’s effect, which he would then permanentize on himself. I expected Detect Enemies to be in the ACKSPC, given that there were a host of other detection spells, but did not find it. What would be a reasonable base cost of “detect creatures with hostile intent” in the spell creation rules?

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Yes, Detect Enemies will detect enemies that are outside line of sight. Enemies that are inside line of sight usually are less difficult to detect, after all!

I didn't create a separate spell for Detect Enemies because it is more-or-less Detect Evil; evil in ACKS is relative to the creature's intent towards you.