Casting in Armor

[dema]

Is there a feat out there in a WOTC book that would allow my rogue/sorcerer to cast in light armor????


Thanks.

 

[Klaus]

No, not a feat per se.

You could talk to your DM into converting your Sorcerer levels into Battle Sorcerer (Unearthed Arcana variant -- 1 less spell known & per day per level, gets light armor, cleric BAB and HD d8).

There are a couple of Prestige Classes that reduce Arcane Spell Failure. You could don a mihtril chain shirt with the Twilight special quality (Book of Exalted Deeds and PHBII) and have, IIRC, 0% chance of arcane spell failure.

Barring all that, take Still Spell and cast all your spells as stilled.

 

[pawsplay]

My approach is

1. live with 10% arcane failure and use leather armor for a few levels. Not that true strike has no somatic components, if you're using that in conjunction with sneak attack.
2. once you have a few levels, keep mage armor up
3. acquire a twilight mithril chain shirt
4. switch to high level bracers

In general, things like mirror image or blur are going go be better defenses than any light armor anyway.

 

[dema]

I actually just want the armor to be able to put extra qualities on it. Like Shadow, Silent, Resistance. I think the Twlight Mithral Chain Shirt Armor may do the trick. However, I think some boots and cloaks of elven(halfling) kind may work for me.

 

[pawsplay]

Boots and cloaks would work fine, I think. If you have psionic items in your campaign, you could take Wild Talent and use psychoactive skins, too.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

No feats I know of, but there ARE PrCls that do- like the Spellsword (CW).

 

[Quartz]

Of course there's a feat: Still Spell.

 

[Dracorat]

Dont forget also that mithril halves the spell failure chance.

 

[Maldor]

if you just want the armor special abilities (like Slick) just go with Thistledown Padded. It in races of the wild. It has no armor check or spell failure.

 

[MarkB]

I believe there's such an option in Complete Mage, but it's not a feat, it's a variant class feature, and I think it's only for fighters, not rogues. That's just going by second-hand knowledge, though.