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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eric V" data-source="post: 7819813" data-attributes="member: 6779717">No, I know what Banishment does, believe me.  So do my players, who protect the Banish-er with greater ferocity than they would for any princess!Casting it at 5th level gets 2 targets, which is more than enough.  A random Hard encounter for 4 17th level PCs would be 2 Barbed Devils, 1 Chain Devil, and 1 Bone Devil.  The last two get banished, leaving only the Barbed Devils, who are now easily dispatched.So, yeah, a bunch of lower level fiends would make more sense...but then you're going through the motions of lots of attacks that are destined to miss, which isn't terribly exciting (at least in my group, the players hate facing hordes, even though they love fireball).</blockquote>