Quote Originally Posted by Palanan View Post
The Realms are pretty famous for having high-level casters hiding under every bush. That’s an overstatement, of course, but simply flipping through a few random pages of the FRCS gives me mid- to high-level casters on nearly every page.* And those are just the named characters.

Your infantry battalion might hold out for a while in a less-populated area, but if they’re throwing themselves against even a moderate settlement, then it’s flaming spheres and thoqquas setting them on fire and cooking off their ammo, interspersed with lighting, flame strikes, and drifting clouds of poisonous gas.

The only way these guys could survive is to go native—first by making the mental adjustment that this is really magic, and then by somehow managing to get some for themselves. But that would be a steep, steep learning curve, and if they’re under any kind of concerted attack, the only survivors will be the ones who ran first…and that’s if the werewolves don’t get them.


*Plus one Ftr20/Rog3/Wiz7, of all things, but that's the Realms for you.
That's the thing. That's the named characters. The setting of Faerun highly implies that if they don't have a name? They're not a high level character. Barring exceptions made by DM's. There are very few high level characters in Faerun, but if they do happen to run into one, they're going to be in for a rough time.