> From: Andrew Lias [mailto:anrwlias at hotmail.com] > being dominated by arms. I can imagin that there *was* an era where > firearms where introduced into the field and, perhaps, even > dominated the > field until such time as some sorcerer developed a set of spells that > negated their utility, after which they became merely another Probably more than negated their utility. A spell that ignited all the gunpowder in a given area, perhaps. That would certainly put gunpowder in the "unusable" category, at least for warfare.