Ellrin
2013-02-16, 01:41 AM
Going through some PF spells, I stumbled on adjuring step. Text below:
This spell creates a subtle and complicated force effect that is most effective when used by a still or slow-moving spellcaster or formula user. While you are subject to this spell, you can take two 5-foot steps each round and still cast spells and use spell-like abilities without provoke attacks of opportunity. This spell automatically discharges as soon as you make an attack, cast a harmful spell against another creature, or move more than 5 feet with a single move action. If the action that discharges the spell also provokes attacks of opportunity, that action still provokes attacks of opportunity as normal.
PF's section about AOOs is a little vague about what provokes them (I'm sure it's elaborated more in each specific action's section), but I'm assuming spellcasting and AOOs works more or less the same way it does in 3.5--you have to cast defensively to avoid provoking AOOs, making a concentration check (I'm aware of the changes to that) to do so.
Clearly this spell lets you take two five-foot steps per round, but I'm not too sure what exactly its effects are beyond that. Do you have to cast a spell in the same round in order to make your second 5-foot step? Can you cast spells that require full-round actions and take both 5-foot steps, or does the second one count as your otherwise move-equivalent action for the round? (I realize it probably doesn't, but) does it let you cast those spells without provoking AOOs?
And while we're on the topic of this spell, what's meant by "harmful spell"? Obviously a spell that causes direct damage would be harmful, but how far does "harm" extend? Poison? Bestow curse? Daze? Entangle?
This spell creates a subtle and complicated force effect that is most effective when used by a still or slow-moving spellcaster or formula user. While you are subject to this spell, you can take two 5-foot steps each round and still cast spells and use spell-like abilities without provoke attacks of opportunity. This spell automatically discharges as soon as you make an attack, cast a harmful spell against another creature, or move more than 5 feet with a single move action. If the action that discharges the spell also provokes attacks of opportunity, that action still provokes attacks of opportunity as normal.
PF's section about AOOs is a little vague about what provokes them (I'm sure it's elaborated more in each specific action's section), but I'm assuming spellcasting and AOOs works more or less the same way it does in 3.5--you have to cast defensively to avoid provoking AOOs, making a concentration check (I'm aware of the changes to that) to do so.
Clearly this spell lets you take two five-foot steps per round, but I'm not too sure what exactly its effects are beyond that. Do you have to cast a spell in the same round in order to make your second 5-foot step? Can you cast spells that require full-round actions and take both 5-foot steps, or does the second one count as your otherwise move-equivalent action for the round? (I realize it probably doesn't, but) does it let you cast those spells without provoking AOOs?
And while we're on the topic of this spell, what's meant by "harmful spell"? Obviously a spell that causes direct damage would be harmful, but how far does "harm" extend? Poison? Bestow curse? Daze? Entangle?