Spellcasting with Shadow Projection?

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

Can you cast while using this spell?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/shadow-projection

[LazarX]

Fenris Ulfhamr wrote:

Can you cast while using this spell?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/shadow-projection

Not if the spell uses material components or foci.

[Mathwei ap Niall]

No, Here's the link.

James Jacobs wrote:

Hey James, I was wondering if you could shed some light on how this spell operates (but not too much, given the spell in question!).

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/shadow-projection

1. Can you perform verbal and somatic components whilst a shadow?
2. Can you access your feats and use spell-like or supernatural abilities whilst you are a shadow?
3. Can you even speak whilst you are a shadow?
4.Do you use your own stats, only your mental stats or none of your own stats when you are a shadow?

The answer to all these questions is more or less no. When you cast this spell, you basically "turn off" your character and "turn on" a shadow, as detailed in the Bestiary. You'd still use your own skills (not modified by the shadow's stats) and your own hit points, but the rest is pretty much "just use the shadow stat block." It's meant to mostly be a scouting out an area spell first and a fighting spell second.

No, you usually can't really cast while in shadow form.

There are a few ways you can but it's involved and extremely feat intensive. You'd need eschew materials, Silent spell and still spell and have to apply all three to every spell you tried to cast and no you couldn't use a metamagic rod to provide any of those feats.
Kind of doable for a sorcerer but still nasty hard.

[LazarX]

Mathwei ap Niall wrote:

No, Here's the link.

James Jacobs wrote:

Hey James, I was wondering if you could shed some light on how this spell operates (but not too much, given the spell in question!).

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/shadow-projection

1. Can you perform verbal and somatic components whilst a shadow?
2. Can you access your feats and use spell-like or supernatural abilities whilst you are a shadow?
3. Can you even speak whilst you are a shadow?
4.Do you use your own stats, only your mental stats or none of your own stats when you are a shadow?

The answer to all these questions is more or less no. When you cast this spell, you basically "turn off" your character and "turn on" a shadow, as detailed in the Bestiary. You'd still use your own skills (not modified by the shadow's stats) and your own hit points, but the rest is pretty much "just use the shadow stat block." It's meant to mostly be a scouting out an area spell first and a fighting spell second.

No, you usually can't really cast while in shadow form.

There are a few ways you can but it's involved and extremely feat intensive. You'd need eschew materials, Silent spell and still spell and have to apply all three to every spell you tried to cast and no you couldn't use a metamagic rod to provide any of those feats.
Kind of doable for a sorcerer but still nasty hard.

Forgot about the total lack of speech part. That would put a real damper on spellcasting activity. Which is probably just as well otherwise this would put the spell on a much higher power level than Project Image, which is the go to spell if you want to cast remotely.