Aligned spells.

[MrBudweg]

What are the rules as far as spells with an alignment in the descriptor?
Is it for protection purposes only?
Or does it prevent a chaotic character from casting a lawful spell?
Does class have anything to do with the restrictions? ( i was searching in reference to a wizard)


Just wondering what spells will be available to my wizard, and if anything will be restricted to him because he is good. He is probably going to be a CG elf that worked around evil/necromantic items and has a secret obsession with them (necromany being his spec school).

Thanks in advance gamers

 

[Hypersmurf]

Clerics and Druids cannot cast spells with an alignment opposed to their own or their deity's.

Wizards have no such restriction.

-Hyp.

 

[moritheil]

Clerics and Druids cannot cast spells with an alignment opposed to their own or their deity's.

Wizards have no such restriction.

-Hyp.

Absolutely correct - though if a wizard manifestly does not care about the consequences of his or her spells, his alignment may shift away from good as a result. (For examples of this sort of thing, consider possible fallout from spells like Planar Binding and Enervation. The former, if used to summon fiends, might result in some unsavory deals; the latter might result in a mage leaving a trail of wights in his wake.)

 

[MrBudweg]

cool thanks.
things should work out quite well then. This guy is going to be quite interesting.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Absolutely correct - though if a wizard manifestly does not care about the consequences of his or her spells, his alignment may shift away from good as a result. (For examples of this sort of thing, consider possible fallout from spells like Planar Binding and Enervation. The former, if used to summon fiends, might result in some unsavory deals; the latter might result in a mage leaving a trail of wights in his wake.)

I would say this is true regardless of the alignment descriptor (or lack thereof) of the spells.

A wizard's alignment is more likely to shift away from good as a result of manifestly not caring about the consequences of Cloudkill than manifestly not caring about the consequences of Deathwatch. (Assuming Deathwatch were available to the wizard somehow, of course.)

-Hyp.