D&D 3E/3.5 [3.5] They fixed it!

[Hypersmurf]

"You make all pertinent decisions about a spell (range, target, area, effect, version, and so forth) when the spell comes into effect."

It doesn't contradict the "Aiming a Spell" text any more!

-Hyp.

 

[dcollins]

Maybe you could specify how "Aiming a Spell" was changed (as I assume it must have)? The part you quoted is verbatim from 3.0 under "Casting Time".

 

[Hypersmurf]

Nope - 3.0 said "when you begin casting."

In other words, you decided where you wanted your summoned celestial badger to appear, then spent a full round casting while everybody moved around the battlefield, then the badger appeared... potentially in completely the wrong place.

Now, you start casting Summon Monster I, and cast for a full round while everybody moves around, then - as the spell comes into effect - decide between a Celestial Badger and a Fiendish Hawk, and that it's going to appear there.

That's just a change from 3.0 to 3.5. That's not the exciting part

The exciting part is that while in 3.0, Casting Time said you make decisions about targets, effects, etc when you begin casting, on the very same page, under "Aiming a Spell", it says "However, you do not have to select your target until the moment you finish casting the spell."

Which always annoyed me

-Hyp.

 

[Chacal]

I'm slightly disapointed.
I thought they fixed [3.5]


Chacal

 

[buchw001]

I'm slightly disapointed.
I thought they fixed [3.5]


Chacal

LOL!

Seriously though, good catch HYP.

 

[dcollins]

I see. Was looking for a change in position, not at the end of the clause.

 

[Pielorinho]

Ehhhxcellent. I ran a low-level game at GenCon, and one poor guy kept casting the world's most useless sleep spells: with the new 1-round casting time, he was never able to catch an enemy in the Area of Effect (chosen when he began casting). I allowed him to cancel the spell twice, when completing it would have put his friends to sleep. I'd decided that sleep was no longer remotely playable; this change makes it remotely playable.

Daniel

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I wish I knew why the pro-3.5 threads get so little response, while the anti-3.5 threads get so many pro-3.5 responses

Anyway, good eye Hypersmurf. WotC should hire you to playtest 4.0

 

[Psiblade]

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[Kae'Yoss]

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