Casting in Armor

[taliesin15]

Wait a minute! What about the Armor Proficiency Feats in the 3.0 PHB--"all classes except wizards, sorcerors and monks have this feat for free"--so conceivably, a first lvl wizard in a 3.0 campaign could choose this--right?

 

[shilsen]

Wait a minute! What about the Armor Proficiency Feats in the 3.0 PHB--"all classes except wizards, sorcerors and monks have this feat for free"--so conceivably, a first lvl wizard in a 3.0 campaign could choose this--right?

Yes, but being proficient in a type of armor doesn't remove the arcane spell failure chance.

 

[taliesin15]

arcane spell, failure, yes indeed--not to mention other problems like trying to swim with a chain shirt on, and a low strength score to begin with

 

[Archade]

In Monster Manual IV, there's a feat called Githyanki Battle Caster, that lets a githyanki ignore 10% of spell check failure ...

 

[pawsplay]

Still Spell is not necessrily that useful for a sorcerer.

 

[Thanee]

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.

They will also be much cheaper.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Crothian]

Still Spell is not necessrily that useful for a sorcerer.

They can instead take spells that don't require the S compnent.

 

[Thanee]

Not so many of those around, however.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Crothian]

Not so many of those around, however.

Bye
Thanee

Which works well since Sorcerers don't get that many spells known

 

[MarkB]

PHB II includes the Twilight armour special ability (page 21). It's a +1-equivalent ability that reduces arcane spell failure by 10%.