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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nergal Pendragon" data-source="post: 6511945" data-attributes="member: 6777649">That is perfectly fair.My rational for the idea of interposing something between the enemy and the mage's body is the fact the fighter does the same thing. Difference is, that mage build is using magic instead of armor <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" />Take a look at the 5E theorcraft I posted above. Then note that you probably don't even need some of those spells; you've probably got the basics just with Shield, Mage Armor, and a high Dex. You would be reliant heavily upon magic to do up-close damage and reliant upon magic for your armor, but given you're a wizard you should be using magic to do damage anyway.Also, I'm going to be a bit blunt: In my experience, prior to 4E, if you were focused on drawing damage to yourself, it didn't matter if you were in melee or not or what class you were... you were probably going to die, so every time it happened was a special circumstance. 4E, at least for those I know, introduced the radical new idea that you could do that and reasonably expect not to die.</blockquote>