That's the thing: they built me a mage meant for battle. If I cast most of his spells, he ends up turning into a Scottish fusion of Collossus and Wolverine. But the story is not very engaging to me because most of the fights are meant to be huge gigantic fights! That one of the elder wizards just blows up because of all the Weiss he has stockpiled.

And yes we are playing 3e Ars Magica. This is also a group that half of them are convinced that d20 is a terrible system that doesn't lend itself to role playing because the experience system makes too little sense. And I'm lost of this whole "seasons" nonsense they keep talking about in AM. "But seasons make so much more sense than a level based system!"

... No. No it doesn't. Exp being spent on skills, sure. This seasons thing is weird.