Dispel magic on Potion effects


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Are effects from magical potions (aka, not alchemical elixirs) treated as spell effects to be valid target for dispel magic. Seems either like an oversight or just not considering it at all.

Some potions just say you become affected by [spell], others, like potion of flying say you gain fly speed.

I find it wierd that some potion effects are dispellable and others would not be due to the way they are typed (especially magical flight). If anything, it is dispel magic that perhaps needs to be redone.

I hope to get some answers to quiet down the rulelawyers I might know to be an issue


If the potion says it grants the effect of a spell, you can dispel that from the creature that drinks the potion.

Otherwise you need to catch the potion while it's unattended to interfere with it's ability to make magic happen.

That is, if your GM is going by strict wording of the rules rather than the seeming intent of the rules to be able to strip magical effects from other creatures one by one.

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