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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2062041" data-attributes="member: 11760">Spellcasters are fragile. If they make a habit of summoning up avalanches and floods and dropping icebergs on castles in time of war, they can expect to be assassinated (possibly by their own side, if there's the slightest doubt as to their loyalty) during times of peace.It doesn't make a lot of sense for spellcasters to walk around advertising "I'm an enormously fragile atom bomb." If they work for their governments at all, it'd have to be in disguise, or they'd have to use disguises in their civilian life.While that's kind of neat -- and was sort of the subject of an indie comic book series in the 1980s -- it really suggests that anyone with a 19 intelligence would know enough to stay the hell out of war.</blockquote>