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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dreeble" data-source="post: 908512" data-attributes="member: 7322">Baldur's GateHeya: In the Baldur's Gate CRPG series it was often an effective strategy to initiate combat with casters and then (if at all possible and, yeah, it wasn't always possible) run away a bit and hide until the enemy casters' buffs wore off. Sounds like this might be a good strategy again in PnP: initiate combat with the enemy group (including casters) that coincidentally had _just_ cast their own buff spells; run away for a few minutes, come back, cast buffs, and attack the buffless baddies. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> My opinion on whether it's good or bad: Say a caster has 3 2nd lvl spells available.  In 3.0, he casts 1 as a buff in the morning.  During the rest of the day, he casts two other different 2nd lvl spells.  Different number of 2nd lvl spells cast: 3.  In 3.5, he casts 1 as a buff before a big combat, he casts the same buff at the beginning of a different combat an hour later, and he casts a different 2nd lvl spell at some point.  Different number of 2nd lvl spells cast: 2.  This sounds like fewer options to me.Take care,Dreeble</blockquote>