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<blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 3722932" data-attributes="member: 15999">It was almost as good as using a bow (a flat 1d6 damage), and your hit rolls were as good as a fighter's through level 3.&nbsp; The gameplay style I recall had low-level wizards' players NOT being focused on dealing damage every round of every combat -- they knew they were the big guns held in reserve.&nbsp; Saying &quot;I'm holding back and keeping an eye out for anybody sneaking up from behind&quot; actually WAS doing something useful -- adventures would say things like &quot;If nobody is watching the corridor, the goblins attack with +2 to hit for surprise&quot;.&nbsp; It may have helped that combat didn't seem to take as long.And to make up for it, you got more spells per day (including cantrips -- Daze is not a useless spell), a better crowd-killer spell with no HD cap (Color Spray), access to many more weapons including powerful crossbows, more hit points (if you take the toad familiar), and vastly expanded versatility and staying power with the Scribe Scroll feat, which was meant to be Standard Operating Procedure for wizards even at 1st level in 3E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brother MacLaren, post: 3722932, member: 15999"] It was almost as good as using a bow (a flat 1d6 damage), and your hit rolls were as good as a fighter's through level 3. The gameplay style I recall had low-level wizards' players NOT being focused on dealing damage every round of every combat -- they knew they were the big guns held in reserve. Saying "I'm holding back and keeping an eye out for anybody sneaking up from behind" actually WAS doing something useful -- adventures would say things like "If nobody is watching the corridor, the goblins attack with +2 to hit for surprise". It may have helped that combat didn't seem to take as long. And to make up for it, you got more spells per day (including cantrips -- Daze is not a useless spell), a better crowd-killer spell with no HD cap (Color Spray), access to many more weapons including powerful crossbows, more hit points (if you take the toad familiar), and vastly expanded versatility and staying power with the Scribe Scroll feat, which was meant to be Standard Operating Procedure for wizards even at 1st level in 3E. [/QUOTE]

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