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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3092284" data-attributes="member: 29398">Interesting thoughts.A couple of other things to consider:Perhaps limit who can cast some types of buff spells.  For example, right now Wizards can get the Bull's Strength equivalent for all 6 stats...maybe split that down somehow, so Wizards can cast only a few, Clerics can cast a different few, Bards a few others, and so on.  Thus, a normal party might not always have access to all the standard buffs...Your Warding idea could be expanded to include a pile of defensive spells - Mage Armour, Protection From [xxxxx], Resist Elements, etc.Instead of limiting how many Wardings one person can have, maybe have each additional Warding after the first on a person make all Wardings on that person substantially easier to dispel, cumulative.  In other words, make them more fragile.  And, make a Warded person glow, so it's obvious who is Warded and the enemy casters know who to target with dispels.Boosts might run aground on the same problem we have now: trying to remember what started when, for duration.  Even worse if the duration is random...which I like, in fact...as the DM then has to track it, and that's more work.Still, your ideas are certainly sound enough to be worth discussing further. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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