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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 734221" data-attributes="member: 1679">One thing about D&D is that levels scale exponentially.  One properly equipped 10th level character could break a non-magical army numbering in the thousands.  It's even worse when you consider the effect monsters with spell-like and supernatural abilities can have on the battle field.  Let's look at Dragons and Evil Outsiders.A dragon is the equivalent of bomber, it flies, it's tough, and it does a lot of damage.  However the real problem comes with Young Adult and older dragons.  Young Adults get Fearsome Presence, which extends out to 150 feet, Will DC 20+ or beome panicked or shaken.  Since most of an army has less then 5 levels, a few quick flyovers by the dragon could rout an entire army in under a minute.  Anybody left is easy fodder for the dragon's breath weapon and litany of attacks.  The main weakness of dragons is that they often aren't properly buffed, but with Army Casters standing by, they sould go into battle with Mage Armor, Shield, Protection from Arrows and/or Elements, Cat's Grace, Bull's Strength, Endurance etc.  A dragon could even carry an invisible cleric with a Wand of Cure Moderate wounds.  The only way to defeat such a dragon would be to have a group of champions challange it, however by then you're army's already halfway home.Many Evil Outsiders get Animate Dead as a spell-like ability.  If you summon some of these with Planar Bindings, they can fly invisible behind enemy lines raising fallen soldiers as zombies.  A sudden attack by the undead in the rear would not be a pretty thing, and as many demons and devils get fly, invisibility, and Teleport w/o Error as spell-like abilities, they would be nearly unstoppable.  Even more fun would be sending them to enemy villages, killing and animating the inhabitants, and having them attack other villages.  War in a D&D world would be particularly unpleasent, like WW1 faught with 2000 technology.Just more rambling, I'd really like to write a book on this or something...</blockquote>

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