Summoning undead

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by JLV

I'm thinking of the enormous increase in IQ necessary to have even a remotely useful collection of such summoning spells. Now we're once again confronted with the need for a 40IQ Wizard; thus increasing the "need" for enormous attribute bloat in order to get even close to the kind of wizards we see in the fiction all the time. Seems to me like this merely exacerbates an already large issue...

Having to be selective with which spells to learn is not a bad thing; it encourages focused characters. Even just a few spells, used shrewdly, can be enormously useful.