Does mage specialty affect the spells?

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I know that being a specialist mage gets you some extra slots; but, does it also affect the spells?

If you are a specialist in school X, does casting a spell from X get any bonuses?

 

No, but you can't cast any spell from your opposition school. Also, you get a bonus to writing spells IIRC.

 

Yeah, I always thought that specialist mages should be more "specialized" in their type of magic, maybe giving a casting level bonus to them when using spells from their school of magic. This would encourage the player to use this type of magic more often, so you wouldn't pick a spell school only based on it's opposite school.

 

Do they also cast spells from their schools faster? Or am I delirious when Edwin conjures his pets faster than Jan?

 

IIRC the only bonus a specialised mages has is his increased number of spells compared to a normal plain mage. However, I may be wrong there ....

farthy,
btw - you didn't equip the robe of vecna and the amulet of power on Edwin by any chance .... ?

[This message has been edited by Ragusa (edited February 01, 2002).]

 

To bad they don't have it like in the orginal pen & paper D&D. The specialist's targets would recieve a -1 to thier saves and Invokers gain 1 point of damage per die. Hence Magic Missle would be 1-4+2 per missle and Fireball 1-6+1/level up to level 12; Nasty damage.

~Shamroc

 

Edwin might be casting faster because of his amulet too! I can't be bothered to test though...

 

No.

Edwin's amulet provides only two bonus spells per each level to memorize in his book.

 

I always thought that spellcasters with high intelligence cast their spells faster, but I must be wrong: The manual sais nothing about it and I can't find it on the internet either...and I realy have no idea why I thought that.
Edwin has a higher intelligence then Jan, though.

 

No.

INT/spells are in connection as:
higher INT - higher chance to copy the spell in the spellbook
higher INT - more spells to add into the spellbook

 

Ah, they were probably casting a different spell, right? Some spells have faster casting speeds than others.

 

OKAAAY...
Nevermind, I guess I'm delirious. But I somehow remember that Edwin was casting Monster Summoning III (or II). But thanks for explaining what that darn necklace does anyway.

 

Did the Amulet have the same affect in the original?

heh, this thread suits my sig.......

 

Are we not straying off topic a bit here? I agree that specialists ought to have more bonuses for their school. Without more bonuses I don't know if school specialisation is even worth it...

 

I think it's worth it, if you pick a good school. I just like the way "Invoker" sounds, that's enough for me .