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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mattcolville" data-source="post: 166689" data-attributes="member: 1300">Here's my take.Magic makes a difference. But armies win wars, not sorcerers. If you believe that magic wins wars, then you don't need the book of war. You already have rules for combat between magic users, the D&D rules.  Check out the Lord of the Rings. The Battle of Pelennor Fields wasn't a fight between Gandalf and the Witch King of Angmar, it was a fight between armies. Losing your General, a la Eowyn killing the Witch King, can radically change how your army behaves, but magic does not dominate the field. The scale of magic in D&D is personal. It was designed that way. In the BoW, the smallest unit of men is about 100 guys. Taking the Lord of the Rings again as a canonical example, Gimili and Legolas, powerful, high-level dudes no matter how you slice it, took out less than 100 dudes between them during the battle of Helm's Deep. This seems pretty realistic to me. A high level mage can cast fireball and wound a unit, but what about the other 100 units? Better have an bad-ass army else you're boned! <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=":)" /></blockquote>