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How does the Area of Effect work when imbue arrow uses spell with an area of a line or a cone? Burst or emanation is no problem as the target would naturally be the center of said effect. But the description of the ability states, "the spell's area is centered where the arrow lands" missing negates the spell. Is this implied to mean that the target is now the point of origin of the spell? Or does it mean that the target is the center of the area as the description states? In the case of a line spell would the spell emanate equal distances in two directions effectively making the target the "center of the spell effect," or does this mean that the spell's origin now begins at that target and emanates in one direction for the spell's range? This gets even more confusing when considering a cone effect. Are we to understand that the "center of the spell effect" is somewhere half the distance from the origin and the extent of a cone spell? How do Ellipses work if I place the point of origin at a 45 degree angle to the ground? Or, do we again imply that the target becomes the point of origin of the spell, and the cone extends out from that point?

Diego Rossi wrote:

James, a question about the Arcane archer, born from this thread.

Imbue Arrow (Sp) wrote:

: At 2nd level, an arcane archer gains the ability to place an area spell upon an arrow. When the arrow is fired, the spell's area is centered where the arrow lands, even if the spell could normally be centered only on the caster. This ability allows the archer to use the bow's range rather than the spell's range. A spell cast in this way uses its standard casting time and the arcane archer can fire the arrow as part of the casting. The arrow must be fired during the round that the casting is completed or the spell is wasted. If the arrow misses, the spell is wasted.

Nowhere in the ability description a attack roll is called out or any attack action or arrow damage but the last row say "If the arrow misses, the spell is wasted."

That last row was added in the passage between the DMG and Pathfinder.

Before that addendum was pointed out to me my interpretation was that the whole "Imbue Arrow" idea was to add range to a spell without it or with a limited range. The arrow was fired to a point in space whitout chance to miss.

With that added I have several problems.

!) Who or what is the target of the fired arrow

2) what kind of action is firing the arrow?

3) If it is a free attack action and the arrow was imbued with a quickened spell, you can use vital strike with that attack?

4) you can give the arrow to another character that will fire it?

5) If you hit the target what happen with his ST?
A rogue with evasion can evade the area effect spell when he is hit by the arrow?
What happen if silence is imbued in the arrow? When it hit me I get struck with silence without a ST as the arrow is struck in my body or my possessions?

When you imbue an arrow, that arrow must hit its target for the spell to trigger. That means if it's an area spell, you need to make a successful attack roll to hit...

How does the Area of Effect work when imbue arrow uses spell with an area of a line or a cone? Burst or emanation is no problem as the target would naturally be the center of said effect. But the description of the ability states, "the spell's area is centered where the arrow lands" missing negates the spell. Is this implied to mean that the target is now the point of origin of the spell? Or does it mean that the target is the center of the area as the description states? In the case of a line spell would the spell emanate equal distances in two directions effectively making the target the "center of the spell effect," or does this mean that the spell's origin now begins at that target and emanates in one direction for the spell's range? This gets even more confusing when considering a cone effect. Are we to understand that the "center of the spell effect" is somewhere half the distance from the origin and the extent of a cone spell? How do Ellipses work if I place the point of origin at a 45 degree angle to the ground? Or, do we again imply that the target becomes the point of origin of the spell, and the cone extends out from that point?

When ever I look at the mobile page on my phone the page continually resets to the top of the page. looking for a spell, BAM! top of the page. Scroll back do-BAM! top of page. One more time, scroll, scroll,, ah, here we- BAM! top of page. It makes the mobile RD unusable. Is there a fix to this?