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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6266597" data-attributes="member: 66434">Spells can totally fizzle as well. Disintigrate, polymorph, hold person, suggestion, etc. It is possible to cast these spells, expending a limited resource, and still get no effect. The spellcaster dance doesn't work. Having a spell disrupted also means you don't get an effect. Some spells affect an AREA. They do not " miss".  Likewise a charm person that actually gets cast but the target makes a save does not miss. Once again-the making of a successful save does not mean that the effect missed. There are creatures only affected by a handful of spells. Other spells cast do not miss, they simply have no effect on the creature in question. The end result is the same for the player-no change in the status quo. So a spellcasting player (at least in TSR versions) has to live with certain failure rate as well. So to answer your question, yes, spell casters have to contend with failures of their own.</blockquote>