Re: Starting a halfling mage and had some questions

>> 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.


I wouldnt worry to much about your lack of hit points, as a mage you
should be concentrating fully on combat from afar using offensive
spells.  Personaly i find Mage characters very easy to level and as
Brian pointed out your high INT means that you can in affect gain a
fair amount experience just from using newly gained spells.  I wouldnt
even worry about the STR affecting your tunneling for treasures as at
level 9 you gain the Turn mud to stone spell, which you can use for
tunneling, on the related subject of that spell, if you didnt already
know it can also be used as an offensive spell against stone or earth
kind of creatures such as earth spirits and elementals, stone giants,
stone and clay golems and xorns.
Getting back to leveling, you could also use a trick to
"powerleveling".  The trouble with going down to far with a low mage
is that harder monsters can gang up on you and due to the nature of
dungeons, you can easily find yourself in a tight spot.  However, you
could use a scroll of recall and go back to town level when you gain
level 11 and use the polymorph other spell on the town people to fight
harder creatures, this however can be very risky, nothing is more
horrorfying than an ancient multi-hued dragon or emporer lich at level
11, they are a few exceptions, the balrog can not be summoned with
polymorph and neither can the evil iggy.  You could try the power
leveling idea but do so with caution, it is a risk but its the gamble
you take for power and levels quickly.   Have fun and best of luck.


Darklon.