School enchantment (compulsion) [mind-affecting]; Level bard 5
Casting Time 1 immediate action
Components V, S
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target one living creature
Duration 1 round
Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes
Cast this spell when an enemy is about to make an attack
against an ally. The creature makes the attack against a
valid target of your choice instead or the attack is negated.
In addition, the target is considered an ally for determining
flanking for 1 round.
Some questions about this spell.
1) can this be used on a caster casting a spell like scorching ray, ray of frost, or any spell based attack.
2) during a full round attack, what happens to the consecutive attacks. Ex. tiger full round attacks (2 attacks) fighter, bard casts foe to freind on the tiger's first attack, tiger fails will save, what happens to the tiger's 2nd attack.
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It affects one attack. It should work fine for redirecting a spell that has an attack roll. It would only affect one attack of a full round sequence. For a spell with multiple attacks, such as scorching ray, it would affect just one ray.
I can see confusion from the duration 1 round. The ally determination duration lasts for 1 round. Note that in PF, flanking is determined by the relationship between the flank buddy and the target, not you and the flank buddy. So, the strict reader will find the spell pointless for flanking; I think that is clearly not the intent and is merely sloppy writing.