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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 1604161" data-attributes="member: 5990">No, really, it's the same animal - if you use the interpretation I'm talking about (I won't say it's "my" interpretation, since I've heard it for years), the apparent contradiction in Break Enchantment vanishes completely.  It's really very simple to apply to spells - there are only a few weird ones that fall under the "non-dispellable over 5th level" category (Geas and Binding, I can think of) and as far as I know the descs of those handily make explicit statements about what spells can counteract them and what can't.  Supernatural abilities are a more difficult question, since they can't normally be dispelled and they don't generally  say what school they belong to.  My gut feeling is that BE should undo at least some Su effects, but I can't think of any good rules arguments why it should, given the way it's written.  And yeah, this is all in the 3.X magic system - in AD&D, figuring out what dispel magic actually did to magic effects was often... extremely challenging.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>