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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 2330220" data-attributes="member: 7884">Sorry, a bit more info: My Div7/Lor5 has Illusion as her opposition school, and has Analyse Dweomer, Legend Lore (her two compulsory divinations), Contingency, Disintegrate, and Flesh to Stone in her spellbook.  She has Spell Focus (enchantment) and Spell Focus (evocation), but enchantment and evocation spells at that level are pretty lame.  She might take Mass Suggestion, but although it's range is reasonable, it is language-dependent, and hence actually only works within earshot (she speaks a dozen languages, so the actual language is not too much of a limitation).  Call me an old-fashioned 1st-ed magic-user, but what I really want is spell that goes BOOM!  Something with multiple energies (a storm of lighting AND cold, or acid AND fire) and secondary effects (stunning, freezing (slowing/paralysing) etc.).  [OK, yes, I can make something up myself..].As an aside, Flesh to Stone is mechanically a superior spell to Disintegrate.  Flesh to Stone is truly a save-or-die spell (unless your opponent has an ally with magic which will reverse the petrification to hand) with no attack roll.  By comparison, Disintegrate is a save-or-get-hurt spell.  By the time you can cast Disintegrate, its maximum damage won't actually kill the big things you're fighting.  And it requires an attack roll.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>