+N weapons & magical aura

[Anastasius Brightstar]

Hello!

Fairly new at DMing here, but I had a party member detect magic on a room in which some enemies were hiding to wait for an ambush. Obviously the +1 bows the enemies had count as magical, but when you concentrate and try to figure out the magical school I didn't know what kind it was.

So, do plain +1 weapons/armor have an associated school of magic? I would guess armor could be abjuration, but I'm not sure about weapons.

[shroudb]

keep note that detect magic is blocked by X inches of Y material.

if your npc's were hiding behind some cover/pillars/etc it would not penetrate, and thus it would show nothing.

as for auras it is:
armor +defensive: abjuration
weapons +offensive: evocation
+stat/skills/etc: transmutation

[Rikkan]

Yeah, but only If no spells are included in the prerequisites, use the following default guidelines.