I just found out a good time when you can get Elminister in your party. After your 'run in' with Abazigal, you can use Control-Q on Elminister before he teleports away. He has 12 spells memorized in each lvl (12 1st lvl spells, 12 2nd lvls spells) all the way till 12 9th lvl spells in his mage book. He also has 12 spells in each lvl memorized in the pries spells. He also has a ring of regeneration where the boots should go, but you probably shouldn't remove it since it might cause the game to crash (like removing Drizzt's scimitars from the helmet slot). He's got just about every mage spell, but his portrait does have a question mark. I'm pretty sure you can give him a portrait using ShadowKeeper though. Even though I havn't used him and I won't use him, it looks like HE ROCKS!!!
Edit: Oh yeah, he's got so many abilities that it's not even funny
[ 06-26-2003, 12:46 PM: Message edited by: Lord ]