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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1088388" data-attributes="member: 3146">Scrolls of Create Water are pretty cheap (12.5 gp each full price) and could easily be stockpiled for use in an emergency. Depending upon how long a siege the fortress was expected to withstand, it might well be cheaper to augment normal stores with scrolls (sufficient in number to last two or three sieges of expected length) than to pay for the labor a reliable internal water supply. That option would also significantly alter the number of acceptable sites--something which could further reduce labor and material costs and result in more defensible and/or more useful locations for the fortress.A fortress should be able to rely upon having a several first level clerics at any one time if that is a part of its strategy. The fortress's water supply should not depend upon one or even two individuals but if it's conceivable for a significant number of the soldiers to have a cleric level, it's a viable solution. Yet another advantage to theocracies and state religions I suppose.</blockquote>