Extremely useful leader of a band of cultists and fanatics.  If you need to make him escape the greater invisibility is priceless. In the desert you can change cold of cold for "Cone of Sand" and ice storm for "Sand Storm"" with the same rules but different descriptions.  It worked like a charm.

Then they would be a Sand Witch

I threw this at my lvl2 PCs and they beat it despite that he had 2 ghouls. 

that's why you cast cone of cold first

I'm putting two Initiatives, some minions and two unique habilities. Theese guy are becoming the base for the big bad of the first act of my campaing. Lets see how it will go.

 I'm throwing this at my PCs in an ebberon campain 

What does it mean for him to be a 9th level spellcaster? And only having prepared up to 5th level spells 

This Mage is considered lvl 9 if they were a PC. So their cantrips hit a little harder and they have the same number of spell slots as a 9th lvl. Spell lvl works different. Spells only go up to 9th lvl.

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Wand of Fire

This wand has 7 Charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its Charges to cast the Fireball spell (save DC 15) from it. For 1 charge, you cast the 3rd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended Charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed

i didnt know if i should use this for an ally in my second campaign, it seemed just a bit too powerful. My players will start at level 5 so what do you think.

i didnt know if i should use this for an ally in my second campaign, it seemed just a bit too powerful. My players will start at level 5 so what do you think.

The mage is a level 9 spellcaster, and has access to level 5 spells. By comparison, your level 5 PCs will have level 3 spells. A mage ally like this might overshadow your characters a bit. It'd be like having Gandalf with the party, except none of your players get to be Gandalf, and Gandalf gets the cool moments doing the most damage to the cool enemies. If you think you can make it work, go for it, just be make sure your players feel like they are the heroic ones, not Gandalf's sidekicks.

If you want them to have a mage ally that's more of a support to them, I suggest a leveled down version of this as a 4th or 5th level spellcaster, i.e. only 3rd level spells and below and only about 23 hit points.

i made a mage called harold the snake

I'm thinking of using it for a oneshot as the bbeg, there would be up to 4 to 5 players level 3... the point is that, when he reaches a third of his life, the one the party is looking for appears, so it's not necessary to kill him... unless they choose to kill them both (the other one is a knight)

Do you think it'd be ok?

Several of these spells have a very good chance of immediately killing most of your party. You could get away with it if you fudged some damage rolls or skipped spells with areas of effect, but I think it's too strong.

What CR would this guy be with no 5th level stuff and only 1 4th level slot?

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Is there a lower level option of this? Lets say 5th level caster instead of 9th. I'd like to include an elderly sorcerer npc into a low level one-shot. I guess i could always just make one.

I imagine someone has already replied to this but just in case, he is basically a 9th-level wizard/sorcerer, etc. He has access to only a certain level of spell slots, if you look at the Wizard Feature Table in their class description, you can see they only get one 5th level spell slot at 9th level, for instance, that's what that means.

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