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Combined with the area effect clarifications for spellcasting:Steel Thought, Page 170
Clarification: If Steel Thought is used successfully, it only affects the character using the talent. Other targets of the avoided effect do not benefit from Steel Thought (unless they have it themselves and successfully use it). This talent cannot be used to negate any ongoing effects, unless a test against Mystic Defense is made.
Lay out the way it is intended to work.Spellcasting Sequence, Page 256
Clarification: Unless otherwise noted in the spell description, spells cast against multiple targets (whether the spell does so normally, or is enhanced to do so through extra threads) determine their success (and number of successes) based on the highest Mystic Defense of all targets. Targets must be designated before the Spellcasting test is made.
Unless otherwise noted, if an area-of-effect spell has a sustained effect, any valid target that enters the area after the spell has been successfully cast is affected by the persistent effect, regardless of their Mystic Defense. Once cast, the spell effect is “real” and cannot be ignored.
Example: Malorren casts Blizzard Sphere (page 281) on a group of bandits. Four of them are in the initial area of effect. The highest Mystic Defense in the group is an 8. Malorren’s Spellcasting test must succeed against a DN 8 for the spell to be cast, and the number of successes (to determine any potential bonus duration) is measured against that DN. Malorren’s spellcasting roll is a 9, so the normal spell duration applies (his rank in the Spellcasting talent in rounds -- 5 for this example).
On round three, a Wizard who is part of the gang enters the area covered by the Blizzard Sphere’s sustained area of effect. Even though her Mystic Defense is a 10, she suffers the movement penalty and any potential damage from Malorren’s Effect test that round (modified by armor as normal). She might have been better off trying to use her Dispel Magic talent to remove the effect!
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