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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4343286" data-attributes="member: 1879">What you say is true only in settings like Forgotten Realms where highlevel spellcasters breed under your sofa like dustbunnies. In most D&amp;D worlds Wizards who can throw a disintegrate around are both rare and valuable, not to mention powers in their own right. Any bellmaker can churn out a cannon on short notice however.Incidently if masses of men can march into chain and grape then your fireball is nothing.Seriously Wizards are severely overrated when it comes to mass combat. Set up a 50,000 man army some time and see how many your wizard can kill even if they all just stand there and take it. Monsters like Giants and Dragons might have a real impact, but wizards simply don't have the staying power to effect a large battle. A druid is an armies worst nightmare, but not in personal combat. Druids command poison, disease, insects and weather and that's what destroys armies. Cannon are much cheaper and easier to aquire and replace than wizards are, and more effective in mass combat. Even they did not spell the death of massed battle, that came in WW1 with machine guns, gas, and heavy artillery battalions that could rain explosive shells from miles away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 4343286, member: 1879"] What you say is true only in settings like Forgotten Realms where highlevel spellcasters breed under your sofa like dustbunnies. In most D&D worlds Wizards who can throw a disintegrate around are both rare and valuable, not to mention powers in their own right. Any bellmaker can churn out a cannon on short notice however. Incidently if masses of men can march into chain and grape then your fireball is nothing. Seriously Wizards are severely overrated when it comes to mass combat. Set up a 50,000 man army some time and see how many your wizard can kill even if they all just stand there and take it. Monsters like Giants and Dragons might have a real impact, but wizards simply don't have the staying power to effect a large battle. A druid is an armies worst nightmare, but not in personal combat. Druids command poison, disease, insects and weather and that's what destroys armies. Cannon are much cheaper and easier to aquire and replace than wizards are, and more effective in mass combat. Even they did not spell the death of massed battle, that came in WW1 with machine guns, gas, and heavy artillery battalions that could rain explosive shells from miles away. [/QUOTE]

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