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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8131422" data-attributes="member: 82106">IMHO any caster who could master FIREBALL would then be essentially a 'nuclear weapon'. They would present an overwhelmingly powerful capability to simply obliterate any 'normal' military force. Now, obviously, being able to cast such a spell only once in a day or even 2-3 times per day wouldn't negate the possibility of larger military forces existing, but imagine you were trying to siege the castle of a lord with such a guy on his staff. Every few hours a chunk of your army goes up in flames. It would be a pretty untenable situation, particularly in any sort of 'medieval' like army (IE smallish groups of mostly professionals and some badly trained draftees). Every fireball either lands on the peasants and they all run far away, or on the scarce professionals, who are unlikely to stick around to get barbecued either for very long (and will surely demand huge pay raises not to go work for the other guy). Practically speaking such 'nuclear armed states' would avoid direct conflict at all costs. Particularly if you start getting into a realm of high-level magic (think 3.5 and its epic spells) where you can really wipe someone out with them. I think there would be a lot more black ops and low level fighting. This could be a good premise for a game. The PCs are employed by one of the major players in such a system as 'spec ops' or mercenaries to help fight small scale border wars, maybe in proxy states that have useful resources, but not much development (in the magical sense mostly). Other elements of course can be designed as one sees fit.</blockquote>

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