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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3682912" data-attributes="member: 8439">Dispel Magic, in the section on suppressing a magic item's abilities, it states "A suppressed item becomes nonmagical for the duration of the effect. An interdimensional interface (such as a bag of holding) is temporarily closed. A magic item’s physical properties are unchanged: A suppressed magic sword is still a sword (a masterwork sword, in fact)." To me, "becomes nonmagical" means that for that brief window of time, the item is an appropriate target for Shatter, Rusting Grasp, or another spell which targets a nonmagical item. However, when I suggested this to a group a while back, they declared that even though it had no magical abilities while suppressed, it wasn't really non magical and thus was still not an acceptable target for such spells. I was glad the DM expressed this ruling before I wasted spells trying it, but it seems like a decision to change the rules rather than what the rules really meant.Would you allow a suppressed magic sword to be subject to Shatter or Rusting Grasp? Do you consider saying no an interpretation of the rules or a change in the rules (possibly to avoid a tactic seen as abusive)?</blockquote>