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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 371361" data-attributes="member: 114">I have a useful little house-rule for shield that works well and reduces bookkeeping, which I could share with you if you like.I DM'ed a wizard with the shield spell and it was difficult to make use of properly once PC's got within melee range - the standard one becomes half-useless if anyone gets a flank on you, for instance!The F5/W1 only gets 2 x 1st level spells, how many encounters does he get in a day? If he only gets 1-2 encounters a day in the wilderness it will inflate its usefulness. In a dungeon with multiple encounters he will find it much harder to choose when to use the spell.</blockquote>