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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7213257" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Didn't read the whole thread, but the first &quot;DM mistake&quot; I see is using &quot;Why?&quot; in stead of &quot;What?&quot;.E.g.: Why are you casting dispel magic? vs What are you casting dispel magic on?The Why is not the determining factor here, it's the What. So I'd have asked &quot;Ok, so, What are you casting dispel magic on?&quot; A player who says &quot;I'm casting dispel magic to stop the wand!&quot; hasn't given the DM enough information. What the player has done at this point is given the DM his intended result...which is fine, except players don't usually get to just decide a result; that's why there are dice. So the DM's follow up question should have been &quot;Ok, so how are you going to do that? What are you casting dispel magic on?&quot;Anyway...if I made the mistake of accepting the players first statement of stopping the wand, I'd have had the player make a Wisdom save against DC 12 (my go-to DC). Failure...&quot;Nothing happens&quot;. Success...&quot;You figure that the way it was moving, it was being carried by something you couldn't see...[dice rolls for dispelling]...and [randomly determine if it was Invisibility or Fly that was dispelled]&quot;.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 7213257, member: 45197"] Hiya! Didn't read the whole thread, but the first "DM mistake" I see is using "Why?" in stead of "What?". E.g.: [I]Why are you casting dispel magic?[/I] vs [I]What are you casting dispel magic on?[/I] The Why is not the determining factor here, it's the What. So I'd have asked "Ok, so, What are you casting dispel magic on?" A player who says "[I]I'm casting dispel magic to stop the wand!"[/I] hasn't given the DM enough information. What the player has done at this point is given the DM his intended result...which is fine, except players don't usually get to just decide a result; that's why there are dice. So the DM's follow up question should have been [I]"Ok, so how are you going to do that? What are you casting dispel magic on?"[/I] Anyway...if I made the mistake of accepting the players first statement of stopping the wand, I'd have had the player make a Wisdom save against DC 12 (my go-to DC). Failure..."Nothing happens". Success..."You figure that the way it was moving, it was being carried by something you couldn't see...[dice rolls for dispelling]...and [randomly determine if it was Invisibility or Fly that was dispelled]". ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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