Professor Wilmina Gertz

DM: Tim Emrick

Professor Wilmina Gertz runs a wizard's school within the Freeport Institute (F:CoA, p. 50) and owns the Indecipherable Scroll (F:CoA, p. 51). A 3.5 stat block is provided for her below.

Gertz has opted not to summon a familiar. She has raised her Int (originally 16) at 4th and 8th level.

Tactics: Gertz finds violence distasteful, but will not back down from a fight when defending herself, her students, her school, or her tavern. In combat, she prefers spells that incapacitate rather than kill. She also goes to great lengths to avoid collateral damage to her surroundings, so when deadly force is necessary, she prefers surgically-precise force effects rather than messy energy blasts. She always casts mage armor, extended using her metamagic rod, every morning after preparing spells (included in her stat block below). She will use her extend rod on shield, and her empower rod on magic missile, stunning bolt, and touch of idiocy. She will improvise as needed with her remaining extend use, and her silent rod.

Professor Wilmina Gertz

Female Human Wizard 10: CR 10; Medium Humanoid; HD 10d4; 30 hp; Init +1; Spd 30 ft. (6 squares); AC 16 (+1 Dex, +1 deflection, +4 extended mage armor) or 20 (plus +4 shield), touch 16 or 20, flat-footed 15 or 19; Base Atk +5; Grp +5; Atk dagger +5 melee or +6 ranged (1d4/19-20); Full Atk dagger +5 melee or +6 ranged (1d4/19-20); SA spells; SQ summon familiar; AL CG; SV Fort +4*, Ref +5*, Will +9*; Str 10, Dex 13, Con 11, Int 18 [20], Wis 12, Cha 16. (* Includes permanent resistance.)

Skills & Feats: Concentration +10, Craft (Calligraphy) +11, Decipher Script +8, Gather Information +5, Knowledge (Arcana) +18, Knowledge (Local: Freeport) +15, Knowledge (Religion) +8, Knowledge (The Planes) +8, Perform (Oratory) +9, Profession (Teacher) +11, Search +5 (+10 with eyes of the eagle), Spellcraft +18; Combat Casting, Craft Rod[B], Craft Wondrous Item, Empower Spell[B], Extend Spell, Scribe Scroll[B], Silent Spell, Spell Focus (Enchantment).

Languages: Aquan, Celestial, Common, Draconic.

Spells Prepared (4/5/5/4/4/3): 0--arcane mark, message, prestidigitation, touch of fatigue; 1st--charm person*, feather fall, mage armor [already cast], magic missile, shield; 2nd--eagle's splendor, fox's cunning, see invisibility, stunning bolt (see F:CoA, p. 132), touch of idiocy*; 3rd--deep slumber*, dispel magic, fly, heroism*; 4th--arcane eye, charm monster*, fire shield, scrying; 5th--hold monster*, siren song* (see F:CoA, p. 131), teleport. (DC = 15 + spell level; * +1 for Enchantment [house rule: +2].)

Spellbook: 0--(all); 1st--alarm, charm person*, comprehend languages, erase, feather fall, hold portal, hypnotism*, identify, mage armor, magic missile, shield, silent image, sleep*, swim (seeF:CoA, p. 132), Tenser's floating disk, unseen servant, ventriloquism; 2nd--arcane lock, blur, darkvision, detect thoughts, eagle's splendor, fox's cunning, glitterdust, knock, locate object, magic mouth, mirror image, misdirection, obscure object, see invisibility, shatter, stunning bolt (see F:CoA, p. 132), sundering missile (see F:CoA, p. 132), Tasha's hideous laughter, touch of idiocy*, web, whispering wind; 3rd--arcane sight, clairaudience/clairvoyance, daylight, deep slumber*, dispel magic, fly, haste, heroism*, hold person*, illusory script, major image, nondetection, protection from energy, secret page, slow, stinking cloud, suggestion*, tongues, water breathing, wind wall; 4th--arcane eye, charm monster*, confusion, detect scrying, dimension door, fire shield, globe of invulnerability, lesser geas*, locate creature, remove curse, scrying, shout, solid fog; 5th--break enchantment, contact other plane, feeblemind*, hold monster*, Mordenkainen's hound, permanency†, sending, siren song* (see F:CoA, p. 131), teleport.

†Permanent spells: On self: comprehend languages, detect magic, read magic, resistance. On FI office: alarm, dancing lights.

Possessions: brooch of shielding [scroll & pen design], eyes of the eagle [spectacles], headband of intellect +2, ring of protection +1, lesser metamagic rod (empower), lesser metamagic rod (extend), lesser metamagic rod (silent), daggers (2), spell component pouch, courtier's outfit, jewelry (bracelets, choker, earrings, and pendant worth total of 400 gp).