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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9060885" data-attributes="member: 23751">Fighters get weapon mastery as well, and even more attacks. Plus they get more criticals or superiority dice or yet other stuff, and level 11 to do a bit more damage is well past the level where you should get a boost outside of a spell smite that can be easily shut down.Smite was the only way for paladins to boost to the point of what fighters and other classes accomplish.  I get that they could uber boost for a fight or maybe 2, but then they were gimped for the rest of the adventuring day's fights, so it balanced out.Silence is taken by most casters that can get it, just like the vast majority of PCs that can cast it take it.  It's VERY useful and casters are not generally stupid.  If PCs can think of it, so can NPCs.If you take the one nonexhaustive snapshot that the MM gives, sure, but those are not the spells that every NPC of that type takes.  18 NPC archmages should have 18 different spell lists, but a few critically important spells will make almost all of those lists.  Just like they do with PC wizards.  If you are simply using the Archmage list in the MM with no changes every time you use one, you are doing a disservice to both the NPCs and the players.</blockquote>