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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 4160714" data-attributes="member: 60965">I guess for me the issue is what intelligent opponent will actually use castles when you're in a world where the possibility of 50 mages showing up exists?  The simulationist in my sees spells like teleport and dimension door and speak with dead and says "these would utterly re-shape society - why is everyone still living in a medieval paradigm?"  It also trembles at the thought of looking at 500 spells and figuring out how each would undermine/reshape any rational world in which they exist.If you look in the DMG at their default city-generation toolset, every major city will usually have at least one person capable of utterly destroying that city or another like it every day, in addition to several dozen casters with access to mid-to-high-level spells.My simulationist brain, especially when seeing PC casters wield such powers says "why in the past 300 years this city was supposed to be here, didn't some chaotic mage with a grudge flatten the place?"My default response is to kinda wave my hand and ignore the issue as long as possible, until players start to get to higher levels and they start asking, "if the big bad guy is a level 17 wizard, why didn't he just divine where we were, teleport without error to us and OMGWTFBBQ us when we reached a high enough level to be a threat?  That's what I'd do if I was him..."At the most, it's going to take a day out of his agenda and probably not even that.  How many 17th level wizards use up even a significant fraction of their spells every day?Ok, this isn't going off on a rant, so I'll just sum up: if I have to someone rationalize full-healing after a good night's sleep, it's worth it if it can stabalize the radical caster-power issues I always have with my DnD worlds.</blockquote>

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