DrTm spell really require a lot of patience to see what color you are.
I found "ice form" nearly useless unless you want to stay under water. I fight mostly with my snakes; and also from range somehow, even crossbow I picked and used although I train none of them.
You can watch me, archl. A pale draconian now, only close fight and mostly in dragon form which I got the book at level 9, finally put in use at level 12.
Ice magic is bad to me, I use 2 fire spells
Evaporate and
Ignite PoisonAlso, I'm stupid enough to learn "Cure Poison" at level 14 because I hate to wait poison cleared.
Pale Draconian: I have Air+1, and since spider form is a must, with only spider form you dare face killer bee at low level, not iceform, I always use swiftness because it allow more strategy, including crossbow down a troll zombie early, save centaur's arrow more, I damn need arrows to create snakes! You know, it would cost me 400 arrows to clear the elven hall:5.
Hmm, fire magic, I might consider learn a bit after Umarmed and Transmutation reach level 27 and 22. Polymorph others would be fun as well.
Also, stay useful low level spells for good, like animated skeleton, blink, swiftness, summon butterfly, fire brand, Fulsome Distillation, call imp, Evaporate, Passwall, Levitation, etc...
I want a polymoph other NOW!, I want to polymorph my snake to dragons...