Spells per round

[dami0101]

I'm pretty sure I'm right on this but my friend won't stop argueing with me about it.

My friend is trying to tell me that for each attack Wizards and Sorcs get, they can cast a spell, so two spells per round when they get two attacks.

I'm saying that the only way to get multiple casts off in a round is to quicken and then cast a normal spell.

Which of us is correct?

 

[blargney the second]

You've got it right, by the sounds of it.
-blarg

 

[darthkilmor]

I'm pretty sure I'm right on this but my friend won't stop argueing with me about it.

My friend is trying to tell me that for each attack Wizards and Sorcs get, they can cast a spell, so two spells per round when they get two attacks.

I'm saying that the only way to get multiple casts off in a round is to quicken and then cast a normal spell.

Which of us is correct?

You are. Most spells take a standard action to cast, of which you get one per round.

 

[sukael]

You have in one round (a) a full-round action, or (b) a standard action and move action.

A spell (usually) takes a standard action, so you can only cast most spells once per round.

 

[jaelis]

If the spell's casting time is a standard action, then it takes a standard action to cast. There are very few ways to get more than one standard action in a turn. Your friend is confusing a standard action with an attack, which is understandable but wrong.

 

[Arkhandus]

Here's where you find it in the rules. This is a link to the Hypertext d20 SRD; basically a section taken out of the Combat chapter of the Player's Handbook. Direct your friend to that section.

Making an attack is one type of standard action. Casting a spell is another, different type of standard action. Full-attacks are one type of full-round action, which only allow you to make multiple attacks, not cast multiple spells. Nowhere does it say that you can substitute a spell for an attack, or that you can cast multiple spells as a full-round action.

 

[dami0101]

thanks guys