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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 5531874" data-attributes="member: 29252">It's a combination of spells doable by a Wizard-5.  If you check the city generation tables in the DMG, there's quite a few of these in a generic D&D setting.<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/fly.htm" target="_blank">Fly</a> and <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/invisibility.htm" target="_blank">Invisibility</a> on the Wizard, to get 200 feet up above the castle in question unseen.<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/shrinkItem.htm" target="_blank">Shrink Item</a> on the boulder.  Rock is pretty dense, and ten cubic feet of rock is HEAVY, dealing a hefty amount of damage to structures when dropped from 200+ feet up.  How it works: 1) Cast Shrink Item on a number of 10 cubic foot boulders well in advance (duration is days/level, so not an issue).2) Get out of line of sight of the defensive structure, and be at least 200 feet away.3) Cast Fly on yourself (1 standard action)4) Cast Invisibility on yourself (1 standard action).5) Staying at least 200 feet away from the castle at all times, go 200+ feet up, then fly over the castle.6) Pull out one of your shrunk boulders, and hold it in your hand, facing downwards (or in a small net by a string, or whatever is needed for the particular set of rules your DM is using for having it immediately fall out of your hands when you hit the next step).7) Dismiss the Shrink Item spell effect on that boulder.8) Watch the boulder fall, as you look up the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/environment.htm#fallingObjects" target="_blank">Falling Item Rules</a>.9) Move over a bit, and repeat from 6 until you're out of either boulders or targets.10) Fly back to home base.Can this be stopped?  Yes.  True Seeing won't do it (range limitation - 120 feet), nor will Arcane Sight (likewise).  You pretty much either need See Invisibility up continuously (it has no range limitation - but it's tricky, as it's a relatively short duration spell for monitoring such things, and it's a personal-range spell, so it's hard to get on your soldiers anyway), or something fairly absolute that stops dropped boulders (like building your roof out of Walls of Force, per the Stronghold Builder's Guide).But even if you can't stop it outright for whatever reason, you still expended some resources on the part of the opposing army to neutralize your fortifications, so they served a purpose, even if it's not an efficient one.</blockquote>

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