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<blockquote data-quote="Riley" data-source="post: 3816431" data-attributes="member: 12870">At mid levels (5th-6th-ish) in the Temple of Elemental Evil, my 1st ed magic-user's main contribution to combat was to do everything except deal damage.&nbsp; Hold Portal was particularly useful.&nbsp; A ranged Hold Portal behind our opponents cut off both any potential reinforcements and their route of escape.&nbsp; An Enlarge spell would be my contribution to damage dealing, as it doubled the damage our fighter could do - for 50 minutes per casting.&nbsp; Similarly, Levitate could render an enemy fighter useless, and ESP told us where the enemy was.&nbsp; All were far more powerful than a single casting of a magic missile, and by 5th level, sleep was just for saving us the tedium of killing the cannon fodder.It sounds like our 1st ed games were a lot like Mieric's.My hope is that siloing will still allow me access to lots of those cool game-changing spells in a once-per-day manner, but eliminate the need for throwing darts (in 1e), or shooting wands of shocking grasp and scorching ray and the like (in 3e) that I have do to the rest of the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley, post: 3816431, member: 12870"] At mid levels (5th-6th-ish) in the Temple of Elemental Evil, my 1st ed magic-user's main contribution to combat was to do everything [I]except[/I] deal damage. Hold Portal was particularly useful. A ranged Hold Portal behind our opponents cut off both any potential reinforcements [I]and[/I] their route of escape. An Enlarge spell would be my contribution to damage dealing, as it doubled the damage our fighter could do - for 50 minutes per casting. Similarly, Levitate could render an enemy fighter useless, and ESP told us where the enemy was. All were far more powerful than a single casting of a magic missile, and by 5th level, sleep was just for saving us the tedium of killing the cannon fodder. It sounds like our 1st ed games were a lot like Mieric's. My hope is that siloing will still allow me access to lots of those cool game-changing spells in a once-per-day manner, but eliminate the need for throwing darts (in 1e), or shooting wands of shocking grasp and scorching ray and the like (in 3e) that I have do to the rest of the time. [/QUOTE]

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