So a full-plated wizard takes a -6 to attack rolls and has a 35% chance for most spells to fail. Try to cast in such armor, you have to roll a check or it fails. Any arcane spell that has a somatic component is harder to cast while in any armor with an arcane spell failure chance. Or you can choose to wear it anyways, but then you are taking the armor check penalty to your attack rolls, and as a 1/2 bab character, well tank your to hit bonuses any further and even your touch attacks will struggle to hit.īut you can always choose to use saving throw spells, right? So what prevents the caster from wearing armor anyways? Mainly the mechanic of Arcane Spell Failure Chance. So becoming proficient requires feats or magic items. First off, wizards don't get any armor proficiencies. So wizards and armor typically don't mix for a variety of reasons. The nominated topic was specifically wizards, but I figure that any arcane full caster + full arcane prestige class combo that have to worry about arcane spell failure chance is valid for today, but I will be using "wizard" as a shorthand for simplicity. We had another tie last time, so we'll start with u/Meowgi_sama's idea of a full caster in full plate! Let's max our way out of the mins of arcane spell failure. suddenly that spell is insanely powerful. And considering that the rules allow bestow curse to give a single insanity. We talked about how some of the madnesses, particularly those that simply turn off class abilities, are extremely potent. Sorry! And to make matters worse, today Reddit wouldn’t let me access anything on my account until this afternoon…Īnyways Last time we discussed the madness rules. Despite three vaccine doses giving me an alchemical bonus, I failed my fort save and got Covid! Lol no joke I was so exhausted and out of it that I didn't realize that I'd entirely missed it until Wednesday. But I had an excuse (not the best excuse but an excuse). I totally ghosted the sub and didn't even make a "no Max the Min this week" post. Welcome to Max the Min Monday! The post series where we take some of Paizo’s weakest, most poorly optimized options for first edition and see what the best things we can do with them are using 1st party Pathfinder materials!
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