Drat. Well, I still have 5 3rd level spells and I haven't even touched my 4ths. But I think next round will be Greater Invisibility to take advantage of Cloaked Casting. +2 save DCs and +2 versus SR. I wasn't going that way because it voids my Mirror Image effect and the dragon might have See Invisibility, but it looks like the dragon isn't interesting in flailing at me anyway.<br/><br/>Also, you have yet to see the sum total of my inventiveness. Last time I played a beguiler, we were only 1st level, I used a silent image to make a dungeon floor turn into a gaping hole. We were up against a zombie that looked nasty enough to cause us no end of grief. But it couldn't cross the hole, because it was too smart to walk off a cliff and too dumb to check for illusion, so it never got a chance to will save. We turned it into a pincushion.<br/><br/>See, I think like a strategist. How does changing the battlefield help me? Well, conjurers and summoners, my favorite mage types, lack the raw power to create whatever they need in the blink of an eye to make that viable. But an illusionist? The ground will quake. The sky will shiver. The stars themselves will flee. The oceans shall become as blood flavored gelatin. That which is insane walks the earth, and all around shall know of it and fear.