Fire Breath Rounds Active

[HL-Gwydion]

An 8th Level Magus would have 8 Rounds of Fire Breath.
What's the significance?
Is it how long the spell can be held before activating or having it involuntarily dissipate?
Thanks....

[Chooky]

HL-Gwydion wrote:

An 8th Level Magus would have 8 Rounds of Fire Breath.

What's the significance?
Is it how long the spell can be held before activating or having it involuntarily dissipate?
Thanks....

The latter I presume. You have 8 rounds to belch your flames 3 times, and I'm also presuming that the round you cast it, you can belch as part of casting, but need to spend a standard action afterwards.

[Claxon]

Yeah, you just have 8 turns to breathe fire as a standard action. Casting the spell is a standard action, and since it's not a touch attack it does not appear that you can actually cast the spell and breathe fire in the same round (where normally casting a touch attack spell gives a free touch attack as part of the casting).

[Lost Ohioian]

Dragging this one back up for opinions. If you cast fire breath as a 3rd level wizard that means you only get to use 2 breaths if you are not allowed breath on the casting round as stated above. I also wonder are you able to hold this spell while casting other spells during the duration of fire breath?

[Master of Shadows]

My guess would be yes, This is not a touch spell you're holding the charge for. There is no requirement of the spell that you cannot speak or act normally because you're containing the fire, instead it simply allows you to exhale a cone of flame up to three times during the duration.