Yeah, that's why I "held" my actions in the first round and screwed myself. I was waiting to see what the spell casters were going to do so that I could either move to defend or benefit from buff's... but I'm not sure why I did it as buffs are few and far between in these games...<br/><br/>I recently joined a table-top game; first time in about 7 years for me, and I was actually surprised that one of the spell casters was trying to throw out buffs instead of trying for boom-boom's. On the down side, at 1st level, there aren't a lot of buffs and most spell casters still want to pretend to be fighters rather than being spell casters.<br/><br/>I've never understood why mage players always thought that they were melee types, but it's been a fact since I started role-playing 30 years ago. A mage with 5 HP trying to attack with a staff rather than use their spell(s). Hell, one sleep spell could of won the whole fight... people still discount the value of sleep.