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Willy the Wizard is having a bad day. He is entangled, on fire (alchemist fire), and taking damage from an Acid Arrow. Despite this he still tries to cast a 2nd level spell. Assuming minimum damage from the effects, how many concentration checks does Willy need to make and at what DCs?
Three checks.
Firstly, the Entangled condition causes a concentration check of 15+spell level.
As for damage...
If you are taking continuous damage, such as from an acid arrow or by standing in a lake of lava, half the damage is considered to take place while you are casting a spell. You must make a concentration check with a DC equal to 10 + 1/2 the damage that the continuous source last dealt + the level of the spell you're casting. If the last damage dealt was the last damage that the effect could deal, then the damage is over and does not distract you.
Alchemist Fire and Acid Arrow are different sources of damage. Two sources, two checks at the DC calculated from the formula above.
First of all...holy crap which deity's temple did he decide to was a great place to drop his pants in from of the high priestess!? Probably Nethys all things considering.
Well...he would have to make at least 2 different concentration checks 1 from entangled; and one from continuous damage. The DC for the Entanglement would be 17, and then the second one would be 13...because both acid arrow and the fire are continuous damage, so they would assumingly stack with each other. If they didn't stack on each other, it would three concentration checks, and the third one would be from the other damage source, which still amounts to 13.
Please be right...please be right...this feels like a math problem.
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Willy the Wizard is having a bad day. He is entangled, on fire (alchemist fire), and taking damage from an Acid Arrow. Despite this he still tries to cast a 2nd level spell. Assuming minimum damage from the effects, how many concentration checks does Willy need to make and at what DCs?
Does Willy the Wizard still have possession of his arcane bonded object, or did he lose it as part of this bad day....?
Given his situation, he probably picked a familiar :)
It is one check from being entangled, and it is one or two from the continuous damage. The book does not specify if continuous damage should be added up or checked against each separately. I tend to go with as few rolls as I can, and pain adding up in my experience, I would go with one check for the DoT, adding up the damage.
Being entangled: DC 15+2 = 17
Being damaged: DC 10+3(minimum damage of both)+2 = 15
With average damage he would look at a DC of 20.