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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1552368" data-attributes="member: 14316">Heh, I'm getting the rules all confused.  If you get 1.5 strength, then Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword) for the Raumathari Battlemage makes even less sense!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> About Invelion's combat style, that's a very good question, one I'm not sure I can answer.Invelion has the Harper Mage Extend Spell ability, and the Augment Summoning feat from Mage Killer.  As he advances in Mage Killer, he will also be getting Spell Focus in various schools of magic.  He also took Craft Wondrous Item.  How does he tie all these together?Many of the spells he crafted items with he won't need to cast anymore.  At third level, for example.  With his carpet, it's doubtful he'll prepare Fly again.  Haste either, since he has the boots.  This leaves Clairaudience/Clairvoyance and Fireball for his third level spells.  He has four Fireballs prepared, with an open slot where he can take a fifth, or perhaps Clairaudience/Clairvoyance.  So he's a blaster mage.  He'll probably take Spell Focus Evocation as he advances in Mage-Killer.The Extend Spell ability was one reason he got Polymorph, which now lasts for 20 hours each day.  That spell handles most of his melee and utility issues (movement, breathing underwater, etc)  He also extends Mage Armor.  He'd extend Endurance too, if he had it.  (Actually, he'll do that!  I'll rearrange his second level spells...)He has the Augment Summoning feat from Mage Killer, so he learned Summon Monster V.What does this all mean?  I'm not really sure.  Since he has so many fireballs, he'll probably just blast away to his heart's content.  The Wall spells won't be so attractive for Invelion until higher levels, since he has a pretty good selection at fourth and fifth level already.  He'll probably find lower level spells more useful, perhaps See Invisibility, for example.  On second thought, can we just forget the spellbook thing?  It's probably better for him to hand-pick scrolls and scribe them into his book, or capture them from NPCs as he goes along.  He'll have to flip a coin with Mourn for them though  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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