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:* '''Example 1:''' A courageous Sorceror advances into battle to cast a touch spell. They spend a Move action to walk into melee range, and provoke attacks of opportunity from two monsters. One hits, and does damage to the Sorceror. This damage does not affect their spell casting in any way this round. | :* '''Example 1:''' A courageous Sorceror advances into battle to cast a touch spell. They spend a Move action to walk into melee range, and provoke attacks of opportunity from two monsters. One hits, and does damage to the Sorceror. This damage does not affect their spell casting in any way this round. | ||
:* '''Example 2:''' After their move, the Sorceror from above spends their standard action and begins to cast their touch attack spell. This would provoke an attack of opportunity from two monsters (since this is a separate provoking action, one of the monsters, who has Combat Reflexes, is able to make two attacks of opportunity). To avoid these attacks of opportunity, the sorcerer attempts to cast defensively by making a Bailiwick skill check against the level of their spell as described above. For the purposes of this example, they roll poorly and fail this check. In this case, they lose their spell and their action, but do not risk any attacks of opportunity. | :* '''Example 2:''' After their move, the Sorceror from above spends their standard action and begins to cast their touch attack spell. This would provoke an attack of opportunity from two monsters (since this is a separate provoking action, one of the monsters, who has Combat Reflexes, is able to make two attacks of opportunity). To avoid these attacks of opportunity, the sorcerer attempts to cast defensively by making a Bailiwick skill check against the level of their spell as described above. For the purposes of this example, they roll poorly and fail this check. In this case, they lose their spell and their action, but do not risk any attacks of opportunity. | ||
:* '''Example 3:''' Suppose instead of attempting to cast defensively, the brave sorcerer from above decides to cast their spell normally, and two monsters attack them with attacks of opportunity. One monster hits them and inflicts damage. Because they took damage due to the action of casting a spell, they now must make a [[Caster Check]] against their attackers [[Maneuver Defense]], at a whopping -5 penalty, as described above. If they fail this caster check (and it's not going to be easy), they lose their spell and nothing happens (Ouch). If they make the check, the spell goes off as normal. | :* '''Example 3:''' Suppose instead of attempting to cast defensively, the brave sorcerer from above decides to cast their spell normally, and two monsters attack them with attacks of opportunity. One monster hits them and inflicts damage. Because they took damage due to the action of casting a spell, they now must make a [[Caster Check]] against their attackers [[Maneuver Defense]], at a whopping -5 penalty, as described above. If they fail this caster check (and it's not going to be easy), they lose their spell and nothing happens (Ouch). If they make the check, the spell goes off as normal. | ||
:* '''Example 4:''' Suppose then, the sorcerer from above, (who is no shrinking violet), uses Quicken Spell to cast a SECOND touch attack spell. (What a trooper!) This time, due to the metamagic feat, they do not provoke attacks of opportunity and always get the spell off. The bad guys are promptly incinerated. | :* '''Example 4:''' Suppose then, the sorcerer from above, (who is no shrinking violet), uses Quicken Spell to cast a SECOND touch attack spell. (What a trooper!) This time, due to the metamagic feat, they do not provoke attacks of opportunity and always get the spell off. The bad guys are promptly incinerated. | ||