This is made explicitly clear in the Sage Advice Compendium:
If you pointed to an apparently empty square and tried to dispel invisibility there and there was a creature there, they would no longer be invisible! You must basically be able to point to the effect and say "I want to dispel that". That will not work because you must choose a target. You cannot declare that you are dispelling invisibility in a 30 ft radius. You cannot target a type of magical effect The important thing to remember is that you can only end ONE effect because you are targeting one magic effect. Examples of magical effects from spells include: an area of darkness caused by the darkness spell, an illusion created by Minor Illusion, and Wall of Fire (among many others). Unlike the first two, this way of using dispel magic will only affect one magical effect.īasically, the magical effect is there to allow you to dispel magic that is not attached to creatures or objects or to target a single effect on a creature or object. The third valid target for dispel magic is one magical effect within range. Let us disregard the first two since they are largely covered by your previous question: How *exactly* does Dispel Magic work with multiple effects?. One creature, object, or magical effect within range Targeting one magical effect Normal spell targeting rules apply here of course (a lot of the confusing aspects of which are covered in a Dragon Talk podcast here). Dispel Magic requires you to choose a target See this Q&A for more evidence and exploration of this facet of the discussion. No effect on a vampire’s Charm ability or any other magical effect
Jeremy Crawford has clarified this many times but here is one example from the Sage Advice Compendium:ĭispel magic has a particular purpose: to break other spells. Ok this is a somewhat nebulous question, but let's start with an important clarification: Dispel Magic only works on magical effects from spells It doesn’t end the same spell on other targets. Q: If dispel magic targets the magical effect from bless cast by a cleric, does it remove the effect on all the targets?Ī: Dispel magic ends a spell on one target. You cannot target a type of magical effect.Īnd to give an actual Sage Advice quote. Either 1 Creature, 1 Object, or 1 Magical Effect. The target required by Dispel Magic is a specific target. If that targeting option didn't exist, you couldn't Dispel effects like that, because a spell like Earthquake is neither a creature nor an object. An individual instance of magic that is not attached to a creature or object. When it refers to a Magical Effect, it is talking about things like Wall of Fire, Storm of Vengeance, Illusions, and so on. The actual meaning is "A Single, Discrete Magical Thing that is NOT a Creature or Object." You can't use Dispel Magic as an AoE Spell Purge to burn out all instances of a particular spell. Your interpretation of it is "A type of magical thing that is happening." You seem to be misunderstanding what it means by 'Magical Effect.' You only target one specific Effect, not all instances of an Effect of a certain type However could I, for instance, target the magical effect of "Invisibility" and remove all instances of Invisibility within a 60-foot radius of the caster? Could I target "Glyph of Warding" and remove all glyphs in the area? Targeting an object is similarly obvious. If this is the case, then I'm left to question what exactly is meant by targeting a "magical effect". The answer there was that Dispel Magic does have a plural effect (it can remove more than one effect with a single casting). In a similar question I asked whether or not Dispel Magic could target multiple effects on a single creature or object: How exactly does the Dispel Magic spell work with multiple effects? What happens if one chooses a "magical effect"? For each spell of 4th level or higher on the target, make an ability check using your spellcasting ability. Any spell of 3rd level or lower on the target ends. There has been a lot of debate in my D&D group about the specific wording of Dispel Magic which were not answered by the D&D Sage Advice Compendium:Ĭhoose one creature, object, or magical effect within range.
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