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===Concentration===
===Concentration===
Concentration checks are performed by making a bailiwick skill check. See [[Spellcraft#Concentrate|Concentrate]] for details.
Concentration checks are performed by making a bailiwick skill check. See [[Spellcraft#Concentrate]] for details.


===Attacks of Opportunity===
===Attacks of Opportunity===
Generally, casting a spell while threatened by an enemy in combat provokes an attack of opportunity.  In order to avoid this, the caster may attempt a [[Concentration]] check to cast defensively. By doing so, regardless of whether the Concentration check succeeds or fails, the caster can no longer be subjected to an attack of opportunity for casting the spell (unless the threatening creature has some ability which allows them to break this rule).  Instead, if the Concentration check fails, the spell is lost as though it were cast to no effect, and the action used to cast it is wasted.
Generally, if you cast a spell, you provoke attacks of opportunity from threatening enemies, unless you make a [[Concentration]] check to cast defensively (see below). If you take damage from an attack of opportunity due to casting a spell without casting defensively, you must still make a [[Concentration]] check to cast the spell, but now suffer a -5 penalty on the check.  If you fail the concentration check, you lose the spell as though it were cast to no effect, and waste the action used to cast it.
 
Spells that require only a swift or free action to cast don't provoke attacks of opportunity.


=== Casting on the Defensive ===
=== Casting on the Defensive ===

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