Fair enough.  I'd actually planned to ask about the bow even when I thought she was allowed additional starting weaponry because I thought it might mess up the current scene (carrying a bow might make it more difficult for the bandits to identify her as a mage, and of course it would reduce the utility of the silence spell they selected to neutralize her).<br/><br/>The other idea I had to solve the problem was to replace Shocking Grasp with Firebolt on her Cantrips list.  It's probably a bit late for that too but since she hasn't actually used Shocking Grasp yet could we write off my selecting that over Firebolt as a stupid newbie mistake?  (It's not just her actual in game capability where I think it was a mistake -in retrospect I think even from a character perspective it was a questionable choice.)<br/><br/>Sorry about all this.  I hope to have things running a bit more smoothly in the future.