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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3523371" data-attributes="member: 16574">Learn to draw maps.Hire some men-at-arms (since you won't have anything better to spend your starting funds on).Perfect the art of stuffing rags into oil flasks, setting them alight, and hurling them at monsters.When combat comes, make sure there's always at least one friendly between you and the bad guys.When combat comes, figure out hlpful/useful things you can do that don't involve melee -- keep a look out for bad-guy reinforcements, hold the door open (or shut), make sure the party's escape route isn't getting cut off, look for ways to affect the battlefield to the party's advantage.Learn charm person and use it to make new friends who will happily do your fighting for you.Dress like a thief (or, better yet, a 0-level linkboy or pack-carrier) so that the bad guys won't assume you're a spell-caster and automatically target you with missiles (if you're wearing a pointy hat and robes while you're 1st level and have 3 hp you're pretty much asking to get whacked)And lastly, don't get too attached to your guy because, honestly, even if you do absolutely everything right as a 1st level mage you've still probably only got about a 1 in 3 chance of survival. But, on the plus side, if you do manage to survive you'll likely have picked up a lot of tricks about tactics, problem-solving, and outside-the-box thinking that'll serve you well no matter what class you're playing, plus when you finally hit 5th level and drop your first fireball or lightning bolt it'll feel so much sweeter knowing you've earned it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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