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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kabouter Games" data-source="post: 7056096" data-attributes="member: 6788812">Not really. "Iron rations" as a name dates from just before the Great War, at least in English. But "rations" as the D&D 5e PHB describes - "dry foods suitable for extended travel, including jerky, dried fruit, hardtack, and nuts" - go back quite a long way, at least to the Romans, and arguably farther, if Xenophon's Anabasis is to be taken as fact and not allegory.I know it's picking nits, but there's a big difference between <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canon" target="_blank">canon</a> and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannon" target="_blank">cannon</a>. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't agree about fireball. The PHB does not specify what type of damage the spell produces, but even if it is a mixture of bludgeoning and fire, it will have far less effect on a stone structure than a cannonball. Better to summon elementals or stone shape or earthquake or something.  There's a thought. I mean, authors have explored "standard" arms of service in terms of different creatures - goblins mounted on wargs, for instance, acting as cavalry - but just unleashing a pack of owlbears? Whoa dang.I don't know about that. Create food and water is a third-level divine spell. That means for every fifteen humanoids or five steeds, you'd need to have one 5th-level Cleric, 5th-level Druid, or 9th-level Paladin expending a 3rd-level spell slot every 24 hours just to keep the army fed. Given that persons with adventuring-class levels are supposed to be somewhat rare - not every soldier has any Fighter levels, after all! - that means a very small army, not the larger one you imagine.The idea of large armies being vulnerable to magic is the most intriguing of all your objections. If you can get your wizards to fireball or earthquake or summon elementals, you're right that large armies can suffer appalling casualties. But casters working alongside regular soldiers are a standard fantasy trope, even in the Forgotten Realms (Cormyr, Thay, etc.). And not all military engagements will feature casters with adventuring-class levels sufficiently high to cast mighty destructive spells. Interesting!Cheers,Bob</blockquote>

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