I’ve never really bought the “DnD breaks down after level 12” argument for a game that already hard nerfed and didn’t use quite a lot of spells, but my first DnD experience was Neverwinter Nights and they solved it mostly by making all spells direct and simple combat spells.

We seemed like the kind of party that would definitely require overkill to get rid of. Like someone else said in this thread, it’s pretty baller that we were enough of a threat for her to resort to that.