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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 954351" data-attributes="member: 3051">IMC we got rid of alignment as well, and ran into this problem.  Ours is more of an elemental-based system, so Protection from Fire/Earth/Water/Air/etc. are obvious choices.  But it's still useful to have a short-duration protection spell for other use, and it might work for your campaign.Basically, we just turned the old Protection from Evil spell into Protection From Whoever Is Trying To Kill Me and toned down the bonuses a bit.  On the bright side, it let us roll Holy Aura-style spells into it too.There's actually a series of 9 of these, one at each level, each of which adds a new bonus, and the size of each bonus given increases by 1 per 5 caster levels.So, Protection 1 cast by a 1st-level caster might only add 2 melee deflection AC and DR 2/- against melee weaponsAt the other extreme, Protection 9 cast by a 20th-level caster might add 6 deflection AC, DR 6/- against all attacks, +6 to all saves, +6 to all resistances, anyone who hits you in melee takes 6 damage, anyone you hit in melee takes 6 damage, you get 20% concealment, and so on.</blockquote>