Red Magic
Is there any good way to abuse this color? There are funny strats for the other schools, but this one just seems too plain. The 11-book choices for chaos sort of suck (at the start, you could only cast chaos spawn, efreet, or metal fires... blah).
The only thing I thought of was this
Artificer + Runemaster + 5 Chaos books + 2 books from 2 schools (runemaster)
This allows you to scrape up mana very quickly and make a "Destruction: Resist or be disintegrated" bow or sword at the beginning of the game that is supposed to disintegrate anything with less than 10 resistance, as per the Disintegrate spell. I tried it out, though, and the mod appeared to have no effect whatsoever. Christ.