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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 1993820" data-attributes="member: 24945">I am to consede (sp) to most of your points.Must be the 1st editionist in me. I have always thought of adventurers as the main monster control.This has been a problem since the first edition and the article address that. But if they have such a low birth rate and a short life span, how can they exist at all? See below for my points on this.Checks and balances. Ants are controlled by predators and parasites (inc other ants). Bacteria are different since they are on a different scale (simple things like a minor change in temperature or pH can kill them).Since when does variable=important? Magic (and with it alchemy) can be the tipping point because it can defeat physics and change battle field conditions. Dig doesn't seem that powerful, yet if used to create pits, can stop the charge of anything, thus making cavalry useless. But it can also be squandered and be utterly useless if the spell selection is poor.Anyways my arguement isn't one fighter vs one sorcerer. It is one fighter vs 100 warriors and one sorcerer. And if the kobolds have time on their side, they are mechanical thinking people and might be crossbow wielders.Beacuse they are killed in huge numbers. Kobolds are considered snacks and pests by pretty much everyone else. The only way they can survive at all is their reproductive potential.You don't have to have peace to breed. As long as they can keep a few of their number safe, those will rebreed the army in the blink of an eye of an elf.All the yellow jacket wasps in New Zealand are descended from a solitary queen.</blockquote>

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