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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 1427356" data-attributes="member: 111">The problem with Malcer's interpretation is that you'd be safer from Dispel Magic by having all your spells cast at the same level rather than at multiple levels - a truly bizarre result.Additionally, I am quite certain that's not how it reads - for your result, it would have to say something like "check once for all spells of the same caster level..." or words to that effect.Your logic of checking all one caster level with one roll would only hold if that one roll was used for ALL the spells on you (not a bad idea, actually).  That's not how it works, though - Dispel Magic maintains an element of risk and suspense as you roll for each spell - it's quite possible that you could have a caster level 8 spell survive while a caster 5 level spell is dispelled with a roll that would have dispelled the caster 8 spell - but that does not matter, since you checked that particular caster level 8 spell already.FWIW, permanent spells count as 5th level, unless obtained through Wish or Miracle, in which case they are 9th level.  Not that it matters - it's caster level that's important here.A targeted Dispel Magic has some of the same randomness and suspense that the area Dispel Magic does in that each spell is checked - not one check for all spells, or even all spells of one caster level.</blockquote>