[pnpgm] Book/scroll casting

kzinti maouse kzinti_maouse at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 31 22:31:30 CEST 2009


Book and scroll casting was also covered in the rules: you use the EL you KNOW the spell at... if its ZERO, you use zero. You can still read the scroll and cast it at EL 200000 if that is what the scroll/book is. However, you get NO BONUS for the roll UNLESS you know a little (have an EL above zero) about the spell you are scroll/book casting.

It really does make the most sense. IMHO.

This prevents someone from being able to cast MASTER level spells as well as written down on a piece of paper. Which in turn prevents the highest level magic user from "arming" all his fellows with tons of high level scrolls (because they will fail casting the same spells with no bonus (no EL) and versus a MDV of any kind). If you did the EL cast and EL known, they would get a bonus even if they didn't know the spell. Which really makes no sense. Simply because a spell is stronger doesn't mean it will work better. See also "Fireballs in Melee".

-Marcel


      




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