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General Note1: Never underestimate the power of a good de-buff spell.
General Note2: Area of effect spells. Opposing mages love “spell turning”. I hate this spell because if I target the opposing mage, my spell gets reflected, BUT this only works for spells targeted AT them, not near them. Spell protection will not protect you from a web, fireball, horrid wilting, etc tossed into your general area. Also useful against invisible spellcasters when you have a rough idea of where they are and are out of glitterdust and true sight.
Summon Fire elemental (druid): As Gil-Galad said, one of the best spells in the game.
Lower Resistance: This is the non-cheese way of removing Dragon MR. Have two or three mages hit Mr or Ms lizard with this simultaneously, then cast breach and you change the whole nature of the battle.
Emotion: KOs your opponents.
Web(mage)/Entanglement(druid): Good old fashioned low level PnP spell from the pre-1st ed days. If you meet a powerful group, toss a few of these spells their general way at the start of the battle and watch how easy it is to kill the DenOfSevenVales/TempleSewers/GaurdedCompuond groups. I say use several to overwhelm saving throws. Load webs into a sequencer and use it as your opening move. You can often entangle opposing mages before they get their defenses up. Just don’t get caught in it. Also: web is an area of effect spell. Aerie once killed Tolergias(sp) solo by casting web and then casting spider spawn.
Spider Spawn: After entangling them with "web", send a couple of spiders over to feast.
Sequencer: See above. I also load them with magic missles for some battles. An 8th level mage can drop up to 16magic missles this way and a 15th level mage can drop up to 45.
Spell Protection (?) with the Divination option: combined with improved invisibility eliminates that annoying true sight. Go invisible and cast to your hearts content.
Cheers-
-Cayle
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