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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rbingham2000" data-source="post: 1063645" data-attributes="member: 12947">One of mmadsen's many excellent ideas in the Archive thread <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9033" target="_blank">Little Changes with Big Flavor</a> was to give powerful supernatural monsters a weakness, or some other way of defeating them with wits instead of force, but I did not see a corollary from anyone in the entire thread that dealt with sorcerers and other magic-users in the same fashion.After all, there has to be some way for characters who do not choose to use magic to take down a sorcerer without having to load up on magical items or have others cast spells upon them to protect them against the sorcerer's magic. There has to be some kind of weakness that the characters can use to defeat or negate the powers of a sorcerer, or otherwise defeat him with wits instead of force.Here are some examples of what I'm talking about:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A sorcerer's illusion magic can be defeated by the use of a mirror, which will show the true reflection of the sorcerer, or the thing or person that the sorcerer has cast illusion magic upon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A fire mage can have his powers negated by throwing a bucket of water upon him, or pushing or throwing him into a body of water, such as a well, a pool, or a stream.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Those who use the magic of the fey can be painfully deafened by the ringing of pure silver bells, just like the fey can.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz met her end when Dorothy threw a bucket of water on her, which caused her to melt away into nothing.</li> </ul>What are some other weaknesses that a sorcerer or other magic-user can have, or some other ways of dealing with them that does not involve the use of magic in the form of spells or items?</blockquote>

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