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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falconnan" data-source="post: 1619825" data-attributes="member: 17686">Actually, my issue with the XP cost is simple: A wizard or sorcerer should not pay experience point costs that high for a spell to be made permanent, but that gives the dispeller two caster level checks to dispel the permanent spell.Consider, an 18th level caster makes enlarge person permanent on himself. Then, a 14th level caster comes along and chooses to get rid of the effect. He casts, and by all rights has a 30% shot at dispelling either the permanency spell or the enlarge person spell. If he succeeds at either, the spell effect is gone forever. What this means is the chance to resist the dispel is 70% for each. 70% x 70% = 49%. The 18th level caster's spell is only 49% likely to resist being dispelled.Or a caster 4 levels lower has a 51% chance of dispelling the spell effect that offends him.Anyone else find this a bit unbalanced, at a price of 500 XP to the caster of permanency? One thought-Can only hit a permanency spell itself if you are willing to pay the same XP cost.</blockquote>