What is a "Spell"?

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There appears to be some confusion as to what belongs in the "Spell" article. According to the overview, spells are abilities that cost TP and are accessible from the MAGIC menus of party members other than Kris, excluding the powered-up versions such as Red Buster and Dual Heal. The article even presents them as distinct from unique S-Action / R-Action options, but still includes a section for those as well. However, Susie's "Bet" and Ralsei's "PopularBoy" ACTs available against Tenna are not present- according to some discussion I've had, this is because they do not cost TP and thus cannot be considered spells. However, Dual Buster, literally labeled as "Double magic" in-battle, costs no TP and is clearly a "spell" in-universe. On the other hand "TreasureHunt" (to me, very clearly an ACT) is on the page- though it costs TP, so does Pirouette, which is also clearly an ACT (even more so due to being in Kris's ACT menu rather than one of the Magic menus).

So, the question is, are we dealing with a discrepancy of what can be defined as a spell, or a debate about what is useful to have on the page?

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i have an idea
anything that's not explicitly an ACT will be labeled as SPELLs
please point out the holes in my method

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i was gonna suggest using the text colour as a determining factor

(regular X-action is in the character's colour; spells are white for everyone; bet/popularboy/etc are also in the character's colour; therefore colured text = act)

but, ralsei's revivekris is in green, and that's definitely magic.
so, that doesn't really hold up like i thought it did

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I second this

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Thank you for following up on replying here after the feedback!

For clarity's sake on what happened with the Spell article: Supercharge and FluffyGuard were originally on Susie and Ralsei's articles pre-fork. After the Spell article was made, we found out FluffyGuard was defined as "R-Action" in a previous patch, and the info about them was left behind, which had caused some people to list the other S/R-Actions.

The unique S/R-Actions have been phased out of the Spell article as of yesterday. Thanks to @WINNERDOG revamping the article to have newly-made ACT cards stylistically implemented, and we had some Discord discussions about the S/R-Actions. Unfortunately there isn't really a fix for RedBuster /DualHeal, but they're too unique and function similarly to their respective normal spells..

I'm thinking about documenting the S/R-Actions that cost TP as a mini list on Susie's and Ralsei's article. That's what I did for Kris's ACTs, anyways.

Edit: typo, also previously added the Spell article link.