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<blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 2494426" data-attributes="member: 16221">Slight tangent on the subject of anti-magic...Ever read a short story called &quot;The Glass Dagger&quot;?&nbsp; The story follows the leader of a terrorist/freedom fighter group who wants to eradicate all magic in the world, because they feel that the wizards are controlling everything.&nbsp; So they built devices that use up all the magic in an area, basically making permanent Anti-Magic Zones.The story involves one wizard who casts a spell on a glass dagger to make it intangible, and plunges this intangible dagger through the leader of this group's heart, which is harmless unless he ever goes into a magic null zone, at which point the dagger would become real again.It's a neat story with a bunch of twists, but more to the point, I rather like the idea of Anti-Magic zones not being &quot;Anti-Magic&quot; or magical in themselves, but rather areas that LACK magic.By the way, I've been seeing a lot of &quot;Extremely High Level&quot; threads popping up recently, and some people have amused themselves by making up characters with hundreds of levels.&nbsp; Whenever I see one of these, I always go to compare it to a critter of yours in the IH of an appropriate CR, and I've noticed that at these levels, will saves and such either make characters 100% immune to magic from a creature, or 100% vulnerable, with no halfway point.&nbsp; Have you given any thought to how to make things more random (so there's a point to rolling that D20 from time to time) at these amazingly high levels?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fieari, post: 2494426, member: 16221"] Slight tangent on the subject of anti-magic... Ever read a short story called "The Glass Dagger"? The story follows the leader of a terrorist/freedom fighter group who wants to eradicate all magic in the world, because they feel that the wizards are controlling everything. So they built devices that use up all the magic in an area, basically making permanent Anti-Magic Zones. The story involves one wizard who casts a spell on a glass dagger to make it intangible, and plunges this intangible dagger through the leader of this group's heart, which is harmless unless he ever goes into a magic null zone, at which point the dagger would become real again. It's a neat story with a bunch of twists, but more to the point, I rather like the idea of Anti-Magic zones not being "Anti-Magic" or magical in themselves, but rather areas that LACK magic. By the way, I've been seeing a lot of "Extremely High Level" threads popping up recently, and some people have amused themselves by making up characters with hundreds of levels. Whenever I see one of these, I always go to compare it to a critter of yours in the IH of an appropriate CR, and I've noticed that at these levels, will saves and such either make characters 100% immune to magic from a creature, or 100% vulnerable, with no halfway point. Have you given any thought to how to make things more random (so there's a point to rolling that D20 from time to time) at these amazingly high levels? [/QUOTE]

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