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Gildrim pushes back out into the street as Karl goes inside. "Thay hiv th' huil ay a draigon in thaur. Ah can juist ween hou th' lizardfowk woud tak tae onybody wha wis wearin' draigonhide whan thay cam tae veesit. But Ah've selled ma wand, for a guid price." "Whit neist? Ah've a wee few...

"Aye, laddie, but Ah'm nae wizard," says Gildrim. "Weel, thank ye, mem, Ah'll tak th' gauld wi' gratitude." OOC: thanks, Velmont.

If you'll allow me a lengthy digression.... There are two types of 'optimization'. Let me give an example. Innocent poster wanders along and says "Hey, can you help me with my mystic theurge?" A 'good' optimizer takes a weak choice and makes it as strong as possible for that choice - start with...

OOC: That's absolutely fine. I've not been sitting silently fuming for weeks! I'd entirely forgotten it myself until yesterday when I began wondering whether he should spend any of his 1500 gp reward.

Poor Gildrim. He can't use arcane scrolls, since he's a divine caster, and he can't use divine scrolls unless the spell appears on the Bard list. Delay poison is on the Bard list, but no self-respecting dwarf would ever need such a crutch! Gildrim has identified the wand with his own casting...

OOC: that potion of limited Veil might conceivably be useful when traipsing about a swamp. Ironically, Gildrim couldn't purchase it even if he wanted to, because it was Conuld who sold it to the shop.

Hmmm. The need to take Spell Mastery and Arcane Spontaneity (LEW feat) after 3rd level spells are achieved makes it very difficult to use Conjurer to enter, or to combine anything with lots of Paragon levels. Ranger 1 / Wizard 6 works, since you can spend the Wizard 5 bonus feat on Spell...

To enter at 8th level, Ranger 1 / Conjurer 6, which with Track and perhaps favored enemy (magical beast) has a nice thematic fit with the Learner, or Human or Elf Paragon 1 / Conjurer 1 / Paragon +2 / Conjurer +3, where the +2 ability boosts help to counteract the Learner's slight MAD and lack...

After Splitting, there's Exit Wound (CW, p. 134), which grants some additional damage and allows your attack roll to apply at an increasing cover penalty to targets standing in a direct line behind your primary.

A grimy dwarf enters the store, fumbling beneath the filthy goatskin shirt he wears beneath his chain shirt. He withdraws a wand and lays it on the counter. "Bluidy stick willnae wirk for me," he says gruffly. "Grendath's wird is it hauds twinty spells ay magic missile." "Ah'm sellin' it,"...

"Aye, we'd leuk a richt smyte ay numpties if th' lizards haed foond thaimsels fishheuks th' day afair. We shoud tak a few things alang, an' haund thaim ower as we hae need." "Noo, if ye dinnae mind, Ah'll jouk intae th' magic merchand's."

Will it be enough to take Gildrim to 4th level? That will determine what he buys before he leaves Orussus for the swamp again. He needs 2987 XP to level. There's 13 months of unawarded time XP, and I can recall a large fiendish monstrous spider, an ooze mephit, a pit trap and a pair of...

"Aye, aye, coud wirk," Gildrim offers. "Thaur's a trick aw twa Ah hiv tay, as ye micht hae seen in Thorne's chaumers. That gaed... weel eneuch, didnae it?" "Thay're a prood fowk, frae whit little Ah've seed. Thaur's a fine line atween offerin' a fair gift in freendship for a service, an'...

There are two advantages to Rapid Summoning that I can see - the conjurer can put an ally in place sooner, and she can avoid the problem of having to make a Concentration check if injured while casting. At 1st level, a wizard with single digit hit points who is hit is more likely to fail to...

Yes, so far. The undead servant was nerfed into uselessness, too. None of the UA wizard variants strike me as overpowered, though. The one you're probably interested in - Rapid Summoning - is one of the better ones, since spending an entire round casting a Summon Monster spell can be quite...

"Guid! But th' skelet shreidit mah freends tae bits fester than th' wand coud heal thaim, sae we cannae howp tae rely oan it alane," Gildrim adds. "Speakin' ay wands, Ah dinnae suppose ony ay ye can cast th' - whit wis it, noo? - magic missile?" "Thaur wis a dairt trap oan th' front duir ay...

Could you not set up a web-based email account such as gmail for enworld business?

Gildrim nods with a kind of grim enthusiasm. "Aye, lots ay haly watter. Ah wis thinkin' that tay. Eneuch tae droun thaim!" "Noo, ane - thaur's mair than ane stairway doun, but we teuk anely th' ane ay thaim. Mebbe th' ithers gae tae th' far side ay th' dead'uns, if ye ken whit Ah mean, but...

We don't have a specialist Conjurer, so that'd be nice. Yes. What an odd class it is. You can enter at 9th as a single class wizard, or at 8th with 5 levels of wizard and two in any full BAB class. I suppose the "optimal" build would be Ranger 1 / Wizard 5 / Eldritch Knight 1 / Learner 10 /...

I live in Scotland, surrounded by people who really do use words like dreichit. I wouldn't dare!"Whit? Ah thocht ye war leavin' in twa weeks!" says Gildrim. "Ah'm comin' wi' ye, ye knaw, tae bring back th' banes ay mah freends. Ay coorse, a dwairrrrrf disnae tire frae a wee spot ay walkin'...