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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crashtestdummy" data-source="post: 6834166" data-attributes="member: 6803354">You are, I hope, aware that your own party doesn't block you? That you're allowed to move through their squares? See page 191 of the PHB in the section "Moving Around Other Creatures". Their squares count as difficult terrain, but unless your party consists of more than two ranks of characters behind you or you have a reduced movement rate, you should be able to move 15' to the far side of the party and to safety using the Disengage action. There will be certainly circumstances where that's not possible (such as if you're going single file), but in most of those cases, the squishy character shouldn't be at the back, but in the middle.In which case you can't use Misty Step, either, since that requires that you be able to see where you're going to.I agree that there are plenty of scenarios where Shield isn't effective. There are also plenty of scenarios where Misty Step isn't effective, either. That doesn't make Misty Step useless -- it's still a quite useful spell. The decision that each player needs to make if they're choosing between the two is which set of scenarios are more likely to occur, given their DM. As I've been saying all along, both spells have their uses. It's the declaration that Shield isn't worth taking that I've been objecting to. When I hit 6th level, I'm actually leaning towards taking Misty Step because of the out of combat uses, but that doesn't blind me to the advantages that Shield presents. I just know that if I take Misty Step, the next encounter will involve archers shooting at my poor bard... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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