Reasons why Tenser is the greatest magician in Greyhawk.

So, when I say "greatest", I

don't mean the world's greatest (which could be someone else's definition of the word), or the
best at everything he does (which is the case with so many people in this world). What I
mean is, what would be the most fair and correct way to judge the man in his time and place?
He was born a few years before the start of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game, so
that's where his greatness belongs. In that time, he had to work with a fairly limited set of
rules and options that he could use to play his character. Therefore, what we get is a fair
approximation of the world he lived in. There are still things he would have liked to do, but
he didn't get the chance. He had to work within a lot of limitations, and it shows. This doesn't
mean his life was an easy one. On the contrary, he had to endure a lot of hardships and unfair
treatment. This is something I can relate to because I've also had my fair share of hardships.
In that, I think the only way to gauge his greatness is how he got out of those troubles, or
rather, how he didn't just get out of them, but actually made his life better. What I'm going to
talk about here is where Tenser is the greatest, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's the best,
because that's subjective. This is just what I think. Here we go. Characteristics of a Great
Wizard In the original AD&D game and for the vast majority of his career, Tenser had no use
of the spell list. In the book, the only spells you can use are those in the class's spellbook.
There are no lists to be found, which means Tenser couldn't go around learning more spells
(or he would simply learn more and be overburdened, since he only had a few spells and the
only way to increase his skill would be to learn new ones). He can't use any abilities gained
from magical talents, and he must instead make use of the ones he already had (his
spellcasting, as well as physical abilities). In order to be really good, Tenser had to work
around that. He was a scholar first, and that's what I'm going to talk about. One of the ways
Tenser got around this was learning what he could from his books. He knew that many
people in that time spent more time reading, studying, and learning from their books than
working (or fighting, as some people do nowadays). He learned many things by reading, and
even found a book of spells to make up for what he couldn't learn himself. In his early career,
he would only use the spells he found in that book, which consisted of several of the most
common spells. He never really bothered with spells that were specific to that level. He found
that he needed more spells as he went up, and so he started using spells like the fireball he
found in his book. As his spell-list became more varied, he got more and more skilled. Tenser
wasn't only a scholar, though. He was also a wizard who relied on the use of magic to make
up for his lack of physical skills. As he got better and better at this, he was able to create his
own spells, like the fireball, that suited his purposes. However, his books were still the source
of most of his spells, and as a result of that, he was rarely able to go and teach people the
ways he learned. This is why Tenser has to get his inspiration from other things. It's also why
he's never really felt that he was a master of anything. He studied other magic users and was
inspired to create things he could learn from them.