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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Technik4" data-source="post: 626235" data-attributes="member: 7211">Kyramus: I agree that Dispel Magic and Greater Dispel Magic are necessary spells in a D&d game. The problem for me is, that in fantasy literature/rpg novels/rpg games there is often something "lasting" and it can't just be solved by a dispel magic. The source of the magic is preventing it from being undone. This also makes many more aventuring hooks possible.Scenario A: Your adventures take you to a town whose beloved mayor has been turned to stone by a mischief making wizard. The party spends a few days and each day tries to cast 3 dispel magics (or whatever). Eventually they succeed, the mayor is free, they get some more information and they continue on to fight the villain.Scenario B: Your adventures take you to a town whose beloved mayor has been turned to stone by a mischief making wizard. The party detects a magical thread which leads north, and after asking the townspeople for clues they discover that there is an abandoned wizard's tower north of the town. They track the thread to said tower, and attempt to defeat the wizard to free the mayor.To me, the second seems more like something I would read about in a novel, the first is the party solving a problem with their arsenal of spells (not that theres anything wrong with that). I presented this as an option for certain spellcasters (ideally villains, although a pc could certainly take it) who wish for their effects to be tied to themselves.Or what about the dreaded final encounter with a lich after haphazardly exploring his dungeon. You didnt defeat all the undead, but with the lich's final "death" all his creations are undone.Or the sacred burial site that has been desecrated and no amount of magic seems to effect it.Or the unfortunate cursed hero, whose damsel is in distress, but he was cursed by a witch and she is the key...The point is you can rule 0 that some of these things happen, but with something that you can point to that makes sense to the PCs, I see them as going with it easier.Seasong: The problem is the remove spells dont have a DC, so this feat wouldnt have an effect for them. All of these effects are permanent as written, this feat just makes it un-removable and un-dispellable, with the caveat that you can always hunt down the caster. I suppose I should add something to the effect of "the caster may voluntarily dispel his own spell, but it must be of his own volition while not under any magical persuading effect".I like consolidating the exp cost, and the part about detect magic though.Technik</blockquote>

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