Dispel magic (arcane vs. divine and vice versa)

Time for a littel disquisition

Shouldn't be not possible that an arcane spellcaster can dispel a divine
magic and viceversa? If a spellcaster can cast only spells from his/her
spell list, how can he/her delete/counter effects from spells that are even
not from the same weave/type??

Juza

Juza wrote:
> Time for a littel disquisition
>
> Shouldn't be not possible that an arcane spellcaster can dispel a
> divine magic and viceversa? If a spellcaster can cast only spells
> from his/her spell list, how can he/her delete/counter effects from
> spells that are even not from the same weave/type??

That's up to the DM. The standard ruleset assumes that all forms of magic
utilise essentially the same energies - it's just that different types of
caster access those energies in different ways, which creates differences in
their spellcasting capabilities. Dispel Magic is simply a means of
disrupting those energies.

--
Mark.