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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9781017" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Again, all I'm saying is, we shouldn't assume monster knowledge of things any more than player knowledge.  If someone decides PC's don't know how to beat Trolls, then it seems a bit of foul play to just assume all the NPC's not only know what LTH is, how to counter it, and to have counters for it already in place.If, on the other hand, someone is the kind of DM who doesn't care about that sort of thing, then feel free to seed every adventure with casters capable of casting Dispel Magic- though at that point, you've really just stealth banned the spell, since any time the players try to use it when you don't want them to will be countered, making the spell somewhat toothless (not worthless, mind you- when traveling in inclement weather conditions and the like, it's still useful).I don't particularly like this approach, it feels like I'm in some kind of arms race with my players.  I also don't like having to consider banning or altering the spell to "solve" the problem it creates for adventure design and pacing- I feel that if the spell is disruptive it shouldn't be my problem to fix it.That doesn't mean I haven't considered it, or that I won't, just that it bugs me that I should have to.</blockquote>