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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 652057" data-attributes="member: 5724">All i'm trying to say is that, although magical defenses may have had decades of formulation, they're never going to be able to negate all the new offenses that are be concurrantly developed.  And if you have uber-powerful mages that can use even only 10% of their powers, you're still going to have uber-powerful mages that destroy armies in the same manner that i've described. Because there is no defense, to the new offense. Yes i agree, eventually there will be a defense. However, i think that a new offense, and new offenses in general, will develop faster defacto making the old defenses useless. For every group of defensively minded spellcasters you'd have at least one group of offensivly minded spellcasters.edit: I'll just add here to prevent another post. <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=":)" />  Just thought of this, wondered what the rest of you would think of it.  Defenses have always progressed to counter what is the most current style of offense. Given the massive amounts of time in recorded history of many fantasy worlds i think there would be a very very large cannon about what defensive magic counters which offensive magic. However, i also think that in order to prepare for the hundreds of different ways one can be attacked by magic, you'd have to have so much more resources spent on defense because you're not certain what kind of attack you'll be facing. And what would you do if your faced by an attack that you're not ready to defend? What if your enemy decides to attack in a manner that is considered "ancient" in your world and which, unluckily for you, you didn't chose to defend against because no one uses magic like that anymore?  Hrm.. justa thought.joe b.</blockquote>

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