u/ShenaniganNinja

I’m very new to old school styles of play. Seeing that casters only had one first level spell slot and detect medic, how do you play one effectively at first level? I’ve gone over the class options and my players are all avoiding casters because of their lack of options and frailty at level one. Some have brought up that they feel they’d be forced to do nothing except wait to cast their one spell and then hide, and that would be very boring. How do you cross this gulf?