Items to prevent spellcasting in battle.

[Anglachel]

Hope this isn't too off topic but one of the magic items in Warhammer fantasy was a sword that would negate the effect of all magic items on opponents in base to base contact with the sword weilding character. This would make magic item use for the sword weilder impossible as well of course. The net effect was a fight that involved base stats against base stats. Basically this was a check and balance against heavily magic item laden characters that would roam around the battlefield, independant of units, decimating whole unit blocks. The warhammer gaming community I was involved with a long time ago had problems with magic laden characters that where basically walking one man armies. It got bad enough at one point that people would field only the minimum troops to allow these characters. However, there were magic items like the sword above that were ment to counter these tactics. There was also an item for a specific warhammer army (chaos dwarves) that inhibited magic casting or even created an chance that those casting magic would have something bad happen to them(less a chance for the chaos dwarves than thier enemies). Perhaps a standard or items that mimic these effects or something similiar would interesting to test? Just some thoughts.