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Message: <blockquote data-quote="riprock" data-source="post: 2958004" data-attributes="member: 42506">Well, most parties have more than one niche per player character.  A cleric with low hit points who did a lot of buffing ... hmm.  Come to think of it, I haven't covered buffing at all, that's a major flaw in my analysis.I guess I would call a buffer a "Cooperation Specialist."  I have seen a few character concepts that only worked in teams.  I seem to recall a Rolemaster class which could amplify or diminish the magic of other casters but couldn't do anything on its own.  So it could defend against enemy casters or buff party casters.I haven't gotten a chance to use buffing much in D&D 3.x.  So if you could contribute any tactics, that would help.Also, are there "Cooperation Specialists" in other genres?  Certainly communications officers in space opera usually work that way.  More than a few times I've had telepathic characters use a telepathy effect to allow all party members to "talk" at a distance.  Communications networks are good examples of "buffing" in my experience.I have much less experience of casters who generously expend "invisibility" on the party thief.  Somehow it just never seemed to happen in my experience, but I hear that a lot of other folks do that kind of thing as a specialty.</blockquote>