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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 646958" data-attributes="member: 5724">wellHow do you deal with a troop of 10 Dust of Disappearance (this cannot be seen by see invisibility or purged by invisiblity purge, it takes a true seeing spell)/flying/blinking or dimension dooring or teleporting/ non-concentrated wizards (ie spread out) who are using wands of (silenced) fireball?Thats roughly 12,000 sq feet of 7d6 fire immolation within one round. If you have soldiers in formation with one every 5 feet thats 2400 soldiers, so probably around 1500-2000 get hit given non-maximazation. With an army of 10,000 they'll all get hit within a single minute.Given the best of circumstances, say your're able to nullify/kill/get rid of all 10 wizards, in 30 seconds. Thats still a hella amount of damage. However, IMHO, no army, person, creature or magic, can respond with difinitive/leathal force to a dispersed massively violent threat within a single minute.I think i'm being very generous here with a 30 second nullification period. Missile weapons won't reach 400 ft in to the air (not that anyone could see the wizards), and most spells won't either. Also if you assume each wizard has put wax in their ears to ignore those verbal spells, and has pumped up on elemental resistant spells, I don't see how you can take them out in less time, if they stay dispersed.Well to make a short post shorter.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  IMHO armies that march, armies that in any form resemble historical armies just simply wont take the field in a world with DnD magic.  Can you imagine trying to keep morale under such an attack? How would you maintain your logistic security?Basically, magic in DnD is simply tremendously distructive and cannot be countered by other magic. (well at least in time for it to make a difference at least <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)again, just my opinion.I see "armies" being composed of small groups of adventurer types. I see kings continualy employing divination magic to attempt to prevent "sneak attacks." I see the threat of retaliation (ie you may get me but my family will get you) being probably the only real restraint on war.joe b.</blockquote>

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