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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 941336" data-attributes="member: 5834">I had forgotten about Mordenkainen's Disjunction until it was recently brought to my attention that some DM's&nbsp; still use this spell on their players and some players still use it on NPC's. I have always hated this spell as a DM and a player. Mordenkainen's Disjunction is probably the only spell I actually felt bad using on my players. I still remember the first time I used it. No one really knew what it was, and once it took affect, they were never going to forget it. My players looked at me like I had just kicked a puppy. They were not happy.I used it a second time on them, and I felt like I was in one of those Pace Picante commercials and I didn't have any Pace Picante on hand. &quot;Get a rope&quot; said my players. They were pissed off. Let's face it. Once you are hit by a Mordenkainen's Disjunction, you are bound to lose a few magic items as well as be at such a disadvantage that only DM kindness is going to save you. If you use it on NPC's, it pretty much ruins tough encounters by reducing buffed up NPC's into cannon fodder for the party who cast the spell. I really feel Mordenkainen's Disjunction is a poorly designed spell that should be changed. I am wondering how the players and DM's here feel about this awful spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 941336, member: 5834"] I had forgotten about [i]Mordenkainen's Disjunction[/i] until it was recently brought to my attention that some DM's still use this spell on their players and some players still use it on NPC's. I have always hated this spell as a DM and a player. [i]Mordenkainen's Disjunction[/i] is probably the only spell I actually felt bad using on my players. I still remember the first time I used it. No one really knew what it was, and once it took affect, they were never going to forget it. My players looked at me like I had just kicked a puppy. They were not happy. I used it a second time on them, and I felt like I was in one of those Pace Picante commercials and I didn't have any Pace Picante on hand. "Get a rope" said my players. They were pissed off. Let's face it. Once you are hit by a [i]Mordenkainen's Disjunction[/i], you are bound to lose a few magic items as well as be at such a disadvantage that only DM kindness is going to save you. If you use it on NPC's, it pretty much ruins tough encounters by reducing buffed up NPC's into cannon fodder for the party who cast the spell. I really feel [i]Mordenkainen's Disjunction[/i] is a poorly designed spell that should be changed. I am wondering how the players and DM's here feel about this awful spell. [/QUOTE]

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