The dwarf makes a tough wizard, especially the Mountain Dwarf, since higher AC means less hits.

Mountain Dwarf Subrace: +2 Strength for nothing alone and the proficiency with light and medium armor and since you can cast spells while wearing any armor which youвЂ™re proficient with, itвЂ™s adding up.

Hill Dwarf Subrace: +1 to Wisdom to raise your already good Wisdom Saves and one hit point per level, to make you even tougher.

Stonecunning: In fact, the wizard benefits this trait, since its main ability is Intelligence.

Tool Proficiency: Grants nothing for a wizard.

Dwarfen Combat Training: A wizard shouldnвЂ™t ever get the need to use one of those weapons.

Poison is pretty helpful and any Resistance is always welcome, even though Poison shouldnвЂ™t come as often at places, were the wizard should be, as other damage types.

Dwarfen Resilience: Since the wizard donвЂ™t get Constitution Saves as proficiency, Advantages vs.

Darkvision: If you can see your target, you can spell it.

Even though dwarves donвЂ™t suffer a speed penalty by wearing heavy armor without the needed STR, being below average in speed can make the typical вЂstay as far back as possibleвЂ™ much harder.

Speed: Actually a minus is the lesser speed.

Abilities: +2 Constitution means more hit points and more chances of survival and helps to maintain concentration spells.

But if we use the game-mechanics they do have some benefits, one of the many reasons why dwarf wizards were a common choice in 3e. No multiclassing, no consideration for feats outside this build, etc.Дwarf: Dwarves arenвЂ™t the archetypical choice for arcane magic, if you look into the literature. Then we go for a more classy type of wizard, who mainly uses his spells and tries to stay alive. Even though I donвЂ™t really address this, this is the fundamental idea to which IвЂ™ll draw conclusions. So now we get to look into, which race makes the best wizards!ДЇirst of all: We go with the standard ability scores with 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8 since itвЂ™s hard to cover up all possibilities of rolled ability scores or those bought by point-buy. Then I saw the ones, who actually took it seriously and I started to think about it.

My second thought: Who would actually think that. The main-reason is the fact, that mountain dwarfs gets proficiency with light and medium armor and dwarfs generally are good with +2 CON and the Dwarven Resilience (Advantages on Poison saves, Resistance to poison damage). The statement was: вЂњThe mountain dwarf is the best race for a wizardвЂќ.

Since I started the blog because of one special statement, that brought my eyes rolling, I think itвЂ™s fair to make one concrete post about it.

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