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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7910334" data-attributes="member: 4348">If you mage is in melee at low level, you are in trouble already.AT low level you may be lucky to survive one round.Reasons they may choose darts is that they are light and you can do more damage per round.If you get melee type spells as a backup (for example, shocking grasp) and focus more on tossing darts, than you are a short ranged PC in most low levels.If you have a bunch of +1 darts, the damage possibility goes up more than if you had a bunch of +1 daggers.You get a bunch of +3 darts later on, you have a LOT more damage potential than simply using +3 daggers.With darts you only have to worry about making mass missile weapons (like arrows or bolts, but darts instead) rather than all the magic making of a dagger.It really depends on the design that you want.In all my years I've only had (I think) two spellcasters choose darts as their main weapons, everyone else normally choose a staff or dagger.</blockquote>