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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2255150" data-attributes="member: 2011">It is unusual at best and could take the PCs by surprise the first time until they figure it out.The archmage case does not really allow for the "polymorphed wizard tactics" since enemy fighter types can get in and attack normally (their offensive magic is not suppressed in the unaffected square of the wizard) Plus, since it is entire squares, something as simple as Greater Magic Arrows can defeat it. It does, however, allow for leaving a tunnel to the wizard so that he can cast out, but if there is a tunnel out, there is a tunnel in.The ESA case (if allowed) does not allow for casting out of the area, so the wizard is limited to "polymorphed wizard tactics". No Shouting at the roof of the cave to collapse it tactics in the ESA case. No Quicken Dispel Magic underwater in the ESA case. Hence, a lot of spells have to be cast to make the wizard an effective fighter type (AC boost spells, Polymorph, Tensor's Transformation, etc.). Plus, a DM might rule that the Antimagic Field has to be cast last (he might rule that you cannot cast in the Antimagic Field, even if you are not affected by it yourself). Well, you cannot cast it after Tensor's because you cannot cast while transformed by Tensor's.Both of these Shaped Antimagic Field approaches limit the Wizard in what he can do after he casts the spell.I think Globe of Invulnerability type spells are much more potent at lower levels than this one is at higher levels, but those are not broken either.</blockquote>

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