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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8571817" data-attributes="member: 6987520">FWIW, my second highest Wizard score is typically CON, then the third is DEX or WIS depending on what I want to do with the build. I like having a high CON for concentration spells and often take Resilient (CON) for saves and another +1 bump to CON.If you do go the mountain dwarf wizard route, then with some armor and more HP you can survive, but IME I like just trying to keep my wizards positioned to avoid direct attack. I usually take War Magic was my tradition, so Arcane Deflection's bump to AC is nice on occasion, and of course there is always the shield spell.Mage Armor is pretty essential of course, just to have some AC, and the 8 hour duration makes it worth it IME. If you aren't tied to Wizard, specifically, going Sorcerer and using Extended Spell can make your Mage Armor last 24 hours per casting with a couple Sorcery Points. The Gnome Fade Away racial feat is pretty nice if you do get into trouble and need to retreat to safer locations.Going Wizard, you can also utilize Mage Armor and focus much of your other spells on Rituals, so you won't need to expend spell slots when you cast them. It focuses you on utility, but saves precious spell slots for other things IMO.I can't really say much on the minotaur issue as I've never played them or even looked into it.Finally, you can always strike a good balance between DEX and CON if you want. For instance, with point-buy you can have three 14's and three 10's. You can put 14's in INT, DEX, and CON, and then use your racial ASI +2 for INT to get a 16. If you lower one of the 10's to an 8 and don't mind the dump stat, your racial +1 ASI and changing a 14 to 15 will yield a second 16.For example, a forest Gnome has INT +2 and DEX +1.STR 8DEX 15+1=16CON 14INT 14+2=16WIS 10CHA 10Or go rock gnome and reverse DEX 14 and CON 16.At any rate, you can certainly make a CON-focused Wizard instead of DEX-focused and it will play perfectly fine IME.Hope it all helps!</blockquote>

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