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<blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4581056" data-attributes="member: 62992"><p>Another great thing to do if you are playing a low level wizard is to remember to scribe scrolls in any downtime.</p><p> </p><p>This only works if your campaign has a realistic time scale (days off) but I always have an enormous scroll hoard for casting utility spells prepared as scrolls are not so useful in combat (move action to take out scroll, standard action to cast), though I use them all the time anyway.</p><p> </p><p>If you have spell compendium then I cannot recommend magic tatoo enough; the spell provides nice buffs that last 24 hr to a level 3 caster. As your caster level increases, it becomes even more powerful.</p><p> </p><p>I would prepare lots of shield and mage armour scrolls so you are protected in combat and perhaps some expeditious retreat and benign transposition as well for battlefield recovery.</p><p> </p><p>Benign transposition in particular, can be used in so many ways. I always use a summoned monster (as a Rogue 7/ wizard 1, but caster lvl 5 due to practised spellcaster feat) to appear behind the monsters and then benign transposition to swtich in the rogue (myself). It can also be used to swap characters who have been grappled or engulfed (with a summoned monster) or who are submerged and drowning. I have saved so many people using this spell as trip attacks to make charaters prone and grappling can be brutal but this spell gives you a way out of both.</p><p> </p><p>Backbiter is another favourite of mine that targets weapons and causes the next attack by a monster to be automatically successful; on itself! There is also NO saving throw unless the weapon is magical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ydars, post: 4581056, member: 62992"] Another great thing to do if you are playing a low level wizard is to remember to scribe scrolls in any downtime. This only works if your campaign has a realistic time scale (days off) but I always have an enormous scroll hoard for casting utility spells prepared as scrolls are not so useful in combat (move action to take out scroll, standard action to cast), though I use them all the time anyway. If you have spell compendium then I cannot recommend magic tatoo enough; the spell provides nice buffs that last 24 hr to a level 3 caster. As your caster level increases, it becomes even more powerful. I would prepare lots of shield and mage armour scrolls so you are protected in combat and perhaps some expeditious retreat and benign transposition as well for battlefield recovery. Benign transposition in particular, can be used in so many ways. I always use a summoned monster (as a Rogue 7/ wizard 1, but caster lvl 5 due to practised spellcaster feat) to appear behind the monsters and then benign transposition to swtich in the rogue (myself). It can also be used to swap characters who have been grappled or engulfed (with a summoned monster) or who are submerged and drowning. I have saved so many people using this spell as trip attacks to make charaters prone and grappling can be brutal but this spell gives you a way out of both. Backbiter is another favourite of mine that targets weapons and causes the next attack by a monster to be automatically successful; on itself! There is also NO saving throw unless the weapon is magical. [/QUOTE]
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