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Why is Arcane Spell Failure a "Sacred Cow".
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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 224822" data-attributes="member: 413"><p>Maybe. But I'm not going to by a splatbook just for this. Our group hasn't introduced any yet and I don't think we will just for a PrC.</p><p></p><p>We rarely use any house rules, even. So far, we have maybe 5 house rules and most of those don't come up very often.</p><p></p><p>"Butcher" is probably a strong word(and in my mind affirms my suspiscion about the whole Sacred Cow thing...). We have a limitation that all(most) of us agree is a balance issue. Giving a PC an option to get around or reduce a limitation by "paying" some cost(like a feat or a skill or whatever) through a house rule seems right in line with the spirit of 3e. Am I wrong? </p><p></p><p>In my case, I'm unhappy with the available options in the core rules for the reasons I've outlined and Sigil's solution seems to me to maintain the balance of the rules and even the "sacredness" of arcane spell casters not being able to wear armor. After all, a pure Wizard is not proficient in armor. If he is not interested in multiclassing, he is unlikely to spend TWO feats just to be able to wear light armor when he could just cast Mage armor and get an AC equal to what he would ge from Chain Shirt(and even with two feats...light armor prof and 1 Armored Casting...he'd still have a 10% failure rate w/ Chain Shirt!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uller, post: 224822, member: 413"] Maybe. But I'm not going to by a splatbook just for this. Our group hasn't introduced any yet and I don't think we will just for a PrC. We rarely use any house rules, even. So far, we have maybe 5 house rules and most of those don't come up very often. "Butcher" is probably a strong word(and in my mind affirms my suspiscion about the whole Sacred Cow thing...). We have a limitation that all(most) of us agree is a balance issue. Giving a PC an option to get around or reduce a limitation by "paying" some cost(like a feat or a skill or whatever) through a house rule seems right in line with the spirit of 3e. Am I wrong? In my case, I'm unhappy with the available options in the core rules for the reasons I've outlined and Sigil's solution seems to me to maintain the balance of the rules and even the "sacredness" of arcane spell casters not being able to wear armor. After all, a pure Wizard is not proficient in armor. If he is not interested in multiclassing, he is unlikely to spend TWO feats just to be able to wear light armor when he could just cast Mage armor and get an AC equal to what he would ge from Chain Shirt(and even with two feats...light armor prof and 1 Armored Casting...he'd still have a 10% failure rate w/ Chain Shirt!) [/QUOTE]
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