Well, my first game ended badly.

[DGDobrev]

Great

I realize it's sort of hard to understand it - I myself had some trougbles grasping it. The general rule of thumb is:

Heroes (Warrior, Paladin, Mage) have skills
Units have abilities and some may cause post-effects (burning, poisoning)
Spells have (or don't have) effects

This is how I remembered the terms

And please read the explanation in the other topic, because this is NOT A BUG.