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*** Not as good as it sounds: At the Demilich scale of power, Shatter deals very little damage. Besides, demiliches are both very powerful spellcasters and extremely intelligent, so it's very likely that it'll just whip up a spell that offers protection from sonic damage. Persistent Spell and Globe of Immunity (both easily learnable by anyone capable of becoming a demilich) renders this tactic completely impossible. It renders the caster completely immune to Shatter (along with any 4th rank or lower spell) for 24 hours per casting. Any caster is going to have numerous methods of defending against Dispel, so removing this spell might end up being more difficult than just directly killing him.
** Whenever the designers remember that critters [[No Biochemical Barriers|don't all have the same metabolism]]…
*** Umber hulks are huge and tough, but jade treated in particular way is corrosive to their hides (mechanically, double damage) and nauseating. Drow make Jade Spiders — constructs with jaws and claws of this stuff, as hulks avoid places guarded by those.
** Rakshasas are devils who have always been ''very'' hard to hurt. In most edition, spells of level 7 or lower are worthless against them, non-magical weapons don't hurt them, and weapons that ''can'' hurt them do reduced damage. ''However'', a crossbow bolt that has been blessed by a Good-aligned cleric (this requires a common 1st-level spell) will kill one ''instantly''. Why crossbows? Nobody knows. ▼
*** Nishruu (Eaters of Magic) consume magic, salt is poisonous to them.
*** ''[[Dark Sun]]'' has ranike tree, smoke of which is a repellent for all sorts of insects and insectoids, including abundant monstrous species and sapient [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|kreen]].
▲** Rakshasas are devils who have always been ''very'' hard to hurt. In most edition, spells of level 7 or lower are worthless against them, non-magical weapons don't hurt them, and weapons that ''can'' hurt them do reduced damage. ''However'', a crossbow bolt that has been blessed by a Good-aligned cleric (this requires a common 1st-level spell) will kill one ''instantly''. Why crossbows? Nobody knows.
* In ''[[Heavy Gear]]'' the advanced ''Black Mamba'' Gear - one of the more powerful designs in either of the two superpowers' armies - had exceptionally weak rear armour. The result is that Black Mambas could be (and routinely were in gameplay) easily defeated by lightweight ''Cheetah'' scout Gears. While the fluff text initially ignored this, the game's designers eventually acknowledged and lampshaded this weakness by having Mamba pilots clamouring for a solution to the "glassback" problem.
** Most [[Hover Tank|hovertanks]] have weak Underside facing, but it can be hit only when the vehicle moves over placed explosives or uses jump jets (to clear obstacles).
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