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Hi everyone, I'm getting hung up on a rules issue regarding magic items. Is the caster level of a magic item the minimum level required for a character to use the item? Could a 7th level fighter don CL11 armor, or is he restricted to CL7 and below? The question in my group comes from the idea that wearable magic items still require activation. Putting it on activates it, and if you don't meet the required caster level to activate it, you can't wear it. Thoughts? Rules postings?
Yep, the CL is used to determine the difficulty to craft something, the cost of creating it (wands, potions, etc), and the power of the item's magical aura when someone uses Detect Magic.
The only time it is involved in activation of any kind of item is reading from a scroll. If the scroll contains a spell with a higher caster level than the person reading the scroll, they have to pass a caster level check (DC = scroll CL + 1) to cast it (if their CL is <= to scroll CL, they automatically succeed).