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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3166226" data-attributes="member: 141">Just for the sake of conciseness, let's pretend that the text feeblemind said that it could only be reversed by heal.  We'd read it with the understanding that anything that could duplicate heal would also work- and that means miracle, wish and (using the adept list) limited wish.  I'm saying this so that I don't have to keep typing the names of those four spells over and over again.Then when feeblemind says "can only be reversed by heal" it is specifying two categories of spells; spells that can reverse feeblemind and spells that cannot reverse feeblemind.  The first list is very short; it only contains heal (and the spells that can duplicate heal).  The second list is quite long; it includes everything else, and includes break enchantment.The first list is quite specific; it gives the spells by name.  The second list (implicitly defined as the spells not on the first list) isn't.  It is less specific than the text of break enchantment that says that the spell can reverse a 5th level instantaneous enchantment.  So if you are saying that the most specific rule takes precedence, then you have to say it is break enchantment that applies.Maybe the example of 20 questions will help illustrate what I am saying about specificity.  What would require fewer questions to correctly guess?<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This spell is not heal, nor can it duplicate heal.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This spell is a 5th level instantaneous enchantment.</li> </ol>I hope it is obvious that 2 is a more specific description than 1.  So the part of feeblemind that says that break enchantment doesn't work is much less specific than the part of break enchantment that says it does.  If your criterion is that the more specific rule takes precedence, you have to say that break enchantment works.I would also argue that even if both spells were equally specific, the defensive/curative spell would take precedence.  But that's not the case; the defensive/curative spell is the more specific spell.</blockquote>

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