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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prism" data-source="post: 6747063" data-attributes="member: 9501">It can be tricky to hold the line with just the single opportunity attack like you say. Still, it is something, along with trying your best to get in the line of missile attacks to provide some cover. However another thing you need to do really is to provide a target to the enemies to tempt them into attacking you. Protect yourself too much and the creatures are almost forced to ignore you and swarm the party. If used at the wrong time the shield spell can certainly fall into this category. I am playing a fighter/mage with the shield spell typically prepared and a few times when I have used shield I have created a real problem for the rest of the party as the monsters simply decided after the first couple of misses to go for easier targets. There are usually plenty of opportunities for monsters to flank the party without being encircled themselves, especially when the back line of the party is likely not a significant melee threat.Even goblins and the like are as intelligent as an average human, and often more cunning and sneaky in combat. They aren't going to attack the guy wearing plate mail with the glowing shield if they can at all help it....It has to be said that our DM's play most enemies pretty hard and I rarely get as much use out of spells like shield as you might think. I might use it once or twice a day at most.</blockquote>