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Can I get an official explanation why Arcane Armor Training and Arcane Armor Mastery requires a swift action? What was the reasoning behind this necessity? The only thing that I can think of was someone found a way to abuse this feat, though for he life of me, I cannot see how you would explain using an action to reduce spell failure...
Opinions are okay too, but honestly, I am looking for the developers' reasoning behind this rule.
Mahalo!
I've always envisioned it as the spell caster simply taking extra care to make the somatic gestures. It's not that there is a swift action that the caster takes that neutralizes the acf, but rather that concentrating on the gestures slows down the process of casting and doesn't leave enough time to also make a swift action.
YMMV
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I've always envisioned it as the spell caster simply taking extra care to make the somatic gestures. It's not that there is a swift action that the caster takes that neutralizes the acf, but rather that concentrating on the gestures slows down the process of casting and doesn't leave enough time to also make a swift action.
YMMV
That's a good one... Taking extra care when casting... I could buy that... I wonder if that is what the guys at Paizo had in mind?
Thanks NameisJake! Hahaha!
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The orc charged Merik, its wild swing accompanied by a flick of spittle and a bestial warcry. Merik's chain shirt deflected the blow, and the orc cut short his yell in a gulp of surprise at seeing a spellcaster in armor.
"I can't stand the smell of orc," Merik quipped as he made ready a spell to deal with the raging cur. Striking a careful balance between keeping up his guard and performing arcane gestures, Merik adjusted his shirt of mail to free his up his shoulder for the final wave. The orc let forth a dying screech as the spell's firey energy consumed its life.
Monte Cook wrote this article which includes some comments about why in the heck he would write such a lemon of a feat as Toughness (+3 HP). The basic idea is that not all feats are designed to be included in a 20 level build.
Arcane armor training doesn't make a lot of sense if you're building a 20th level Wizard, but might make more sense if you know your game won't go beyond 10th level. I suspect the designers were looking for a way to make low-level caster less squishy without buffing high level casters (since high level wizards didn't really need buffing).
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The orc charged Merik, its wild swing accompanied by a flick of spittle and a bestial warcry. Merik's chain shirt deflected the blow, and the orc cut short his yell in a gulp of surprise at seeing a spellcaster in armor.
"I can't stand the smell of orc," Merik quipped as he made ready a spell to deal with the raging cur. Striking a careful balance between keeping up his guard and performing arcane gestures, Merik adjusted his shirt of mail to free his up his shoulder for the final wave. The orc let forth a dying screech as the spell's firey energy consumed its life.
I was thinking about that too... but I thought it would be reaching a little to assume that he was doing that every round that he was casting... Nice point though! Did you write that, or is that taken from an actual book?
Cool! Thanks!
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Monte Cook wrote this article which includes some comments about why in the heck he would write such a lemon of a feat as Toughness (+3 HP). The basic idea is that not all feats are designed to be included in a 20 level build.
Arcane armor training doesn't make a lot of sense if you're building a 20th level Wizard, but might make more sense if you know your game won't go beyond 10th level. I suspect the designers were looking for a way to make low-level caster less squishy without buffing high level casters (since high level wizards didn't really need buffing).
Not quite the answer I was looking for, but thanks!