Epinephrine
2009-02-04, 10:37 AM
I know I could ask in the RAW thread, but I don't want just RAW, I also want to know how people actually play it.
a) spell-like abilities are affected by dispel magic; are they treated as a separate set of effects or the same as spells?
e.g. Warlock has an invocation up (say, Fell Flight?) as well as a magical buff (Mage Armour) and comes under the effect of an area dispel. Dispel magic may remove one spell in effect on the warlock - does it check spell-like abilities in their own category, potentially costing the warlock both his Mage Armour and his Fell Flight, or is the spell-like ability counted as a spell in effect, and thus he's only at risk of losing one of them? How do you determine order of dispelling spells if they are at the same level? Randomly?
b) Magic items are not affected by an area dispel, but "For each object within the area that is the target of one or more spells, you make dispel checks as with creatures." - if a magic item (like a +1 sword) is under the effect of a spell (umm, Frost Weapon, for example), is the Frost Weapon spell affected in an area dispel, as it is a spell on an object? My interpretation would be that an area dispel doesn't affect a magic weapon's base abilities, but I'm having trouble with the idea that the magic item would somehow protect the enchantment on it.
b) would seem to matter a lot, as one might cast a Silence spell on a magic item and thus the spell becomes immune to area dispels.
a) spell-like abilities are affected by dispel magic; are they treated as a separate set of effects or the same as spells?
e.g. Warlock has an invocation up (say, Fell Flight?) as well as a magical buff (Mage Armour) and comes under the effect of an area dispel. Dispel magic may remove one spell in effect on the warlock - does it check spell-like abilities in their own category, potentially costing the warlock both his Mage Armour and his Fell Flight, or is the spell-like ability counted as a spell in effect, and thus he's only at risk of losing one of them? How do you determine order of dispelling spells if they are at the same level? Randomly?
b) Magic items are not affected by an area dispel, but "For each object within the area that is the target of one or more spells, you make dispel checks as with creatures." - if a magic item (like a +1 sword) is under the effect of a spell (umm, Frost Weapon, for example), is the Frost Weapon spell affected in an area dispel, as it is a spell on an object? My interpretation would be that an area dispel doesn't affect a magic weapon's base abilities, but I'm having trouble with the idea that the magic item would somehow protect the enchantment on it.
b) would seem to matter a lot, as one might cast a Silence spell on a magic item and thus the spell becomes immune to area dispels.