I have been thinking of doing a character that focus not on damge spells in the battlefield but more of Manipulating the Battlefield with spells like changing or modifying the area with earthquakes, entangle or something like that. The problem I am having now is which class would work best that can both have a good spells list and casting those spells during a day. Any ideas on which base clas and/or Prestige classes (from Dragon) would with this concept?
Thanks
Druid comes to mind when you write about earthquakes and entangle. you could also do storms rock to mud
mages like wizard and sorcerer can cast grease, the various wall spells (force wall, fire wall, iron wall, etc.), halucinatary terrain, fog, stink cloud, cloud kill and many other battlefield manipulating spells. ooh how exciting.