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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grayhawk" data-source="post: 1777763" data-attributes="member: 11288">Steverooo, Sammael, thanks for your replies.I think you're mistaken; this is not a Spell Failure check (like the one you suggested in the thread in General); it's a check to see if you get the spell off immediately or if the casting carries over to your next action.Since this is for a system with no AoO's (and propably no Delayed Actions), a spell that is cast on your own initiative has no risk of being interrupted.But that doesn't mean that the spell will be interrupted if you don't make your roll - someone still have to hit you or have the right spell to counterspell your's.(And hitting a low level caster doesn't have to be that easy: A 1st level Wizard with Dex 14 and Mage Armor has an AC of 16. If attacked by a Hobgoblin, it'll hit him with about 1/3 of it's attacks. That means that for the Spell Casting roll to equal a Spell Failure roll, 3 Hobgoblins need to be within melee range of the caster (or using ranged weapons). In such a case that caster will be pretty much dead anyway.) Do you still feel that the DC is too hard? (caster level + d20 vs 15 + spell level.)What other things should be taken into consideration to make something like this work?(For example, in an AoO less system everybody would be able to run up to a caster who's spell casting is carrying over till his next action, passing or disengaging all opponents with impunity. So such a system propably needs rules like 'You must stop your move once you enter a threatened space' and 'Disengaging from melee invites free attacks from your opponents as you move away'.)</blockquote>

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