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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6250906" data-attributes="member: 6669384">In our campaign, the bad guys have been using volcanoes to create a near-universal cloud of ash and smoke.We're now at the stage where the PCs are going to try to shut them down.So, as a DM using 20th +- level NPCs, and without using Wish or Miracle, how would you have someone awaken volcanoes to prolonged activity?  Note that you want them to smoke, but stop short of completely blowing themselves.As the counterpoint, how would a party of 16 to 17 levels, without access to Wish or Miracle, shut one down?So far, the PCs know that at least one such enterprise involved binding an Efreet inside one.  What else is in volved was never established.Our valid source books, to date, have been the PHB/DMG, MM 1 through 5, the Completes (minus Complete Psionic), and the three environment books (Sandstorm, Stormwrack and Frostburn).  We've also included Planar Handbook, and allowed a few items and spells from other sources.  Not many.Of course, as the DM setting off volcanoes, you wouldn't be so limited.BTW:  I already have a few ways this was done, so I'm not fishing for solutions.  I'm just seeing what you can think of that I haven't. <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>