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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5783429" data-attributes="member: 19675">Which is why, IME, Wizards were best served by saving their big spells for those situations when they were called for, and generally not casting unless they really need to.It drives Hussar nuts when I talk about the way our "specialist" plays mages, but it's actually pretty common for him to have spells left at the end of the day, even when we hit 6+ encounters.And his mages are routinely seen using daggers, staves or ranged weapons depending on what particular Mage he's playing.  (Weapon choices are about the only variation between his wizardly PCs over the years except 4Ed.)Again, I don't see a need for a wizard to be any more effective a melee combatant- sans the spells we all know that ramp that all up enormously- than he already is.A 10th level mage is as skilled with his weapon as a 5th level warrior type (sans stat & feats, of course).  Going by the campaign world demographics that people like to cite all the time around here, that makes him a pretty impressive warrior in a bog-standard campaign world.</blockquote>