[Olorin]

As I mentioned in my first post, the buff spells they cast when the party enters the area are given to them for free. You can check by recruiting Nalia; she has cast stoneskin, MMM, and a couple other spells, but check her spellbook and there are no used slots.

I've also seen it when charming the mage in the upstairs of the Den of Seven Vales. He has the same spell set as he had before the mod was added, despite having buffed with stoneskin and MMM.

-edit: one thing that shows the mages are actually SMARTER is that they will immediately go hostile when you cast a charm spell at them. No more try, try again to charm blue circled folks.


Now, having a free MMM is not really cheating because those things last indefinitely, so you can just assume the mage in question had them left over from yesterday. The stoneskin is a bit more questionable though. You can cast stoneskin just before resting, and it will last a few hours into the next day, but not the whole day.

The ones that are really cheating are the short-lived protection spells, if a mage had enough mirror image spells to last the whole day, he wouldn't have any other level two slots left for offensive spells.

[ 04-29-2003, 01:01 PM: Message edited by: Olorin ]