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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beale Knight" data-source="post: 1599890" data-attributes="member: 7033">This just boggles my mind on two levels. Firstly, as Henry said, any wizard worth his salt should be insisting on rest breaks when his spells are exhuasted and there's an opportunity to rest. Secondly - the great improvement for wizards in 3e is that they simply AREN'T worthless even when they're out of spells. Wizards of any race can use crossbows, which gives the spell-drained wizard a chance to hang behind the fighter-types and shoot for upwards of 1d10 damage every other round, or 1d8 every round if they're using a light crossbow. Others have brought up the fact he can use a bow since he's an elf, but as an elf he also knows how to use a longsword and rapier which only expand his combat options. While jumping into melee is still not a great idea under most circumstances for any wizard, 3/.5 e have opened the wizard's option wide open. It sounds like this guy is stuck in the mindset of earlier editions where about the best weapon a wizard could use was a staff or dagger. Perhaps introducing an NPC wizard that makes good use of his non-spell options to the party would help shed some light on what he can do once out of spells. This presumes he's not simply being stubborn. Best of luck.[edit - grammer police]</blockquote>