[OOC] Return to the Rusty Rat

[Toot]

What about the Vigor spells? Last time when I played a cleric (Wee Jas "necro" priest. There was a battle with a young blue dragon and you learnt that there is no save vs. death touch.) at you; you loved these spells

Longstrider: spell range Personal => self. So, you couldn't cast it to your teammates.

Aid another: it's ok for melee. It is a standard action and you can ready a standard action, ...  
If you want to used against ranged attack then it called COVER.

Vigor spells are nice.  

What if there isn't any cover?  Couldn't someone aid another by pushing them out of the way, yelling at them to duck or distracting the bowman somehow like with a mirror?  Quite often Aid Another is used in combat by players who are all out of options.  So allowing them to be able to continue being useful by spending a standard action to grant a teammate +2 bonus to defense or whatever is to me a fair trade.  And it could create some interesting roleplaying opportunities.  

RE: Longstrider, Oh that sucks.  All the more reason why Mass longstrider would be useful.