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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2064779" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>In my campaign, many characters select these CL increases when they are available, particularly characters with LA-races who are trying to catch back up in what they an dispel and the effect of their spells.  Some characters take this to the extreme.  For instance, I created a powerful shadow-lich NPC who has epic levels in Red Wizard, plus his Archmage levels and magic items.  In total, he gains something like +20 caster level to Illusion spells, so he just memorises almost everything as Illusion spells using Shades and Shadow Evocations (which he has augmented to be 100% real for his best spells).  Strangely, this actually makes him substantially weaker against certain foes, but it pays off against creatures with Spell Resistance, since he can pretty-much always penetrate it.  Fortunately for the PCs, the one time they ever encountered the lich (who far outclassed them in power), the bumbling wizard accidentally used his phylactery as a spell component.</p></blockquote><p></p>