Re: Starting a halfling mage and had some questions

No matter what anyone else says, those stats will allow you to grow a
powerful Mage character.
More specifically, the Intelligence score alone will go a long way to that
end.

By your character having an INT greater than 18/50, he will learn spells at
at least 1.5 times the rate of lesser twits.  What this means in a practical
sense is that, since he will gain experience for initially casting a
newly-learnt spell, about every other level increase he can simply cast his
newly-gained spells to bring him close to his next level increase. (In case
you missed the subtle mathematics of this: your character will be able to
learn TWO new spells at every other level increase.)  I personally only play
Mages for this reason; I don't have to spend days or weeks slowly trudging
along to gain experience and levels, but mere hours to bring a fresh Mage to
level 13 so that he can Identify almost all the untried items he has thus
far found.

The INT stat over 18/50 is the key to that, so I would say that is a good
character.  I like to see more STR, too, just to be able to carry several
staves (which weight 5 lb each), and WIS is good for avoiding those magical
attacks, but INT is the thing that really matters for a Mage.  Those other
stats can be gained fairly rapidly after you descend to 1250 feet or deeper.

I also prefer Elves, but that is just my cup of tea.


"J. Ted Harty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Here are my stats outta the gate.
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> I wanted to know from any experience halfing mage users or mage users in
> general if these stats are good or are going ot hurt me in the long run.
> I'm worried about that low str.
>
> My stats are as follows
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> Str 7
> Int 18/58
> Wis 9
> Dex 18
> Con 10
> Chr 13
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> Any advice on this chracter woudl be appreciated.  I looked threw the news
> group posts back to 2001 and didn't find much about halfing mages.   Are
> these guys viable characters?  I'm worried i'll have such pathetic hit
> points I'll always have problems.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ted
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> www.tedharty.com
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