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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyrrell" data-source="post: 483708" data-attributes="member: 5839">I chose Grey elf from the DMG as a race (penaties to str and con bonuses to int and dex).  The longbow was my best friend until around level 5.  (I also have a fond memory of a longsword crit I did in our first adventure, but really you don't ever want to go into combat)I took evocation as a specialty and dropped conjuration.  Mage armor is the only spell I ever missed.  Mage armor is only one spell and eventually I found ways to get an armor bonus.  ( if you are in melee you've already lost. ).  There has never been a game session that invoved combat where I haven't made use of my evocation bonus spells.  I took spell focus enchantment at first level (I eventually took focus and greater focus evocation but I started out with enchantment).  sleep and daze rocked earrly on. daze worked through third level actually.  At first level you have a good chance of shutting down opponants that the DM has designed to take on the whole party by using this level 0 spell.Sheild is a great spell for a low level caster.and I second what Kershek says about scrolls.  Make the scrolls the odd utility spells that you don't use every day (tenser's, invisibility sphere, etc) putting attack spells on scrolls forces you to use higher caster levels and the scrolls have a low save DC.</blockquote>