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Badelaire

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Scroll spell failure
« on: May 24, 2010, 03:25:35 AM »
Something that's happened twice IG to me now is arcane spell failure on using scrolls. Has this been changed so that the spell failure percentage from armour affects scroll casting too?
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 03:36:22 AM »
you sure that you were not exhausted?
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Badelaire

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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2010, 03:39:19 AM »
Pretty positive, stood still and no exhaustion both times.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2010, 03:41:48 AM »
Fairly certain there is spell failure percentage applied for reading arcane scrolls when wearing armor.  I have a pc who is a wizard who never fails reading arcane scrolls unless she is wearing armor other than robes.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2010, 04:13:34 AM »
Happened also to me, I thought it was the armour yeah.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2010, 04:22:03 AM »
Yeah, as far as I know that is no bug, but can happen. If you use scrolls - spell failure chance will apply.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2010, 04:51:32 AM »
not sure about the scrolls that are both divine and arcane, think those also count as arcane
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Badelaire

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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2010, 06:24:55 AM »
I'm pretty sure those scrolls that can be used by any class, the raise deads, poison/disease removal etc etc aren't affected by spell failure but I never actually knew it still applied to arcane scrolls.
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Shadowthrone

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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2010, 09:34:21 AM »
It's working as intended. Arcane scrolls are supposed to give arcane spell failure, as per PnP rules.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2010, 10:23:22 AM »
It can be kind of strange though. I found out the hard way that Darkness scrolls are subject to arcane spell failure due to armor even though the actually spell darkness only has a verbal component.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2010, 02:29:36 PM »
Yeah, it's not perfect. Stuff like that can probably be fixed though if it gets reported.
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2010, 02:33:32 PM »
Ahh.. Im not having any issues with scrolls due to failure..
Never have use them with fighters in like 6 other servers who wear full plate x.x
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 03:12:17 PM »
the verbal only problem applies to the majority of spells. At least all the ones I ever bothered trying. Which is probably intentional to avoid true strike shenanigans.
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dark_majico

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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2010, 04:22:57 AM »
If you took the still spell feat and went to cast a spell using a scroll would that spell be cast using the still spell feat or not?
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Re: Scroll spell failure
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2010, 10:02:18 AM »
no, scrolls use the basic version of a spell at a given level based on the scroll.
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