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I was talking about the use of dead magic zones.

Only until your PC's can cast fly. Or just trap it behind walls of stone and ignore it. Or, if you hate your caster PC's so much you could just punch them in the face until they get the idea and stop playing mages... ;)

If you make them as an npc opponent you are pretty much saying to your spell casting PC's, neenah, neenah, you cant do anything. I despise dead magic zones for pretty much the same. They are a simplistic and cludgy way to make encounters more difficult which doesnt require the players or the...

Anything that makes members of your party hopelessley ineffective and forces them to sit their doing nothing but twiddling their thumbs in inherently unfun for the player. So, while it may have lots of interesting social and economic consequences for a world its not something I could ever see...

So, what happened?

Nooooooo. I liked Talen and I wouldnt count him out just yet. I suspect that Varo is about to deal the death blow with a Heal spell. At least, I hope so.

The trouble with that is the survival horror scenario doesnt really work if its just the PC's much past about level 3. At that stage provided someone put some ranks in Survival and you have a Cleric with create water you can survive most places. However, add 200 or so refugess who the PC's...

Why exactly as a mage are you trying to kill yourself with DBF when your opponent encases you in a forceage? Thats makes no sense what so ever. Assuming that he hits. You do realise that Mages are on of the best classes for pumping AC if they really want to. Also, Heavy Fortification is one...

Im sure I remember a group of adventurers from Krynn gunning for him as well as it was the first time I had seen anyone suggest playing a minotaur.

I have seen a few attempts which have worked in those games. They may not work in yours of course. Halve all spell progression for full casters. - the hghest spell level available goes to 5 making "issue" spells such as raise dead and teleport a truly rare ability. Far fewer save or dies...

I dont own the PHB2. Could you give me an idea of what it does (without of course the full description).

I think you are stretching the definition of the word useful quite a lot to include Combat Casting... :eek:

Not when each search check covers a 5' square and your in a 50' long, 20' wide, 10' high corridor. Thats 120 seperate search checks. Heck, even the much lambasted 10' by 10' room with a chest guarded by a Kobold with a pointy stick takes 26 of them to search fully (including the chest and...

One crucial one I forgot which by level 17 you should probably have set up permanently on the whole party: Rary's Telepathic Bond. Now all of those OOC "suggestions" around the table are IC.

Stick them in a Mordenkainens Magnificent Mansion, they should be fine. Of course, convincing them to do it might be more difficult. While it wont neuter spellcasters an NPC without gear against a fully equipped PC group is not likely to last long.

Probably true and I entirely agree that Shapechange would be added to the top of my list of broken things. I still cant fathom why they thought the spell needed a buff from its 3e version. Again yes, Undead HD increase too fast for their CR rating and making any attempt to turn them a waste of...

Play 20 questions with Commune. Do the same with Contact Other Plane. If you can lock out dimensional travel over as large an area as possible. Dimensional Lock is probably the best idea. True Seeing has a pretty short duration but you will want to use it on as many people as possible...

This is very sound advice. If you dont want to go down that route then throw less combat encounters at your players. Up the level of social, political, intrigue or investigation elements into the game. If you are going to cut xp awards or change the xp requirements then do it in conjunction...

I've ran it twice now and enjoyed it both times, once in 2e and once in 3e. It doesnt so much demand caution as require the players to be utterly paranoid about everything single thing they do. The end Tomb was better than the first although the very first trap was just ridiculously...

If their equipment doesnt improve then I really dount this would be that much of a challenge for any group beyond about level 9 or 10. PC's with the ability to fly or otherwise outmanouver them combined with a single Control Winds spell will destroy most of the Horde. As they get fewer in...