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<blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 1413214" data-attributes="member: 939">Back in 1E I had a rather old character wizard who reached 17th level.&nbsp; In the process, he had made a mage's guild and actually, I ended up playing the lower level mages in the guild in adventures more than I played him.&nbsp; Since I had to make up so many different mage PCs to flesh out the guild, I ended up getting somewhat creative with styles.&nbsp; There were no specialists then, but what I did instead was make my own sort of specialists.I made an ugly wizard who decided he wanted everyone to like him - so he made up for it with specializing in charm spells.&nbsp; I even researched my own varations on charms (one of the benefits of having my own guild) and so the spells he had were truly geared to his personality.I had another one who was obsessed with lightning, so spells with lightning effects were researched - in some cases, it was more about style - like he researched a lightning version of knock - it &quot;fried open&quot; a lock - destroying it in the process.&nbsp; I did my own mini-lightning missiles spell - like magic missile, except it was electricity and therefore had its pluses and minuses.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; Some were entirely unique.I had several others with other themes.I found that rather interesting - while they could have used some of the more standard spells, it was more fun for me to play them as if they'd rather only do spells of a certain type - and they came up with all sorts of creative uses for their spells.&nbsp; Just an idea to try something different for a 1st level wizard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Altalazar, post: 1413214, member: 939"] Back in 1E I had a rather old character wizard who reached 17th level. In the process, he had made a mage's guild and actually, I ended up playing the lower level mages in the guild in adventures more than I played him. Since I had to make up so many different mage PCs to flesh out the guild, I ended up getting somewhat creative with styles. There were no specialists then, but what I did instead was make my own sort of specialists. I made an ugly wizard who decided he wanted everyone to like him - so he made up for it with specializing in charm spells. I even researched my own varations on charms (one of the benefits of having my own guild) and so the spells he had were truly geared to his personality. I had another one who was obsessed with lightning, so spells with lightning effects were researched - in some cases, it was more about style - like he researched a lightning version of knock - it "fried open" a lock - destroying it in the process. I did my own mini-lightning missiles spell - like magic missile, except it was electricity and therefore had its pluses and minuses. And so on. Some were entirely unique. I had several others with other themes. I found that rather interesting - while they could have used some of the more standard spells, it was more fun for me to play them as if they'd rather only do spells of a certain type - and they came up with all sorts of creative uses for their spells. Just an idea to try something different for a 1st level wizard. [/QUOTE]

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