Spell casting in Armor

[Paul Jr]

I am skimming the book now. I noticed that there seems to be no armor penalty to casting spells now.

So it looks like a wizard who takes a feat to train in armor, can then cast spells in their armor.

Is this correct?

[Aristophanes]

Yep.

[DM Torillan]

It does seem that way, and I like it. If a caster is gonna invest a feat into armor, then it seems appropriate to not penalize them.

Interested in seeing how it plays out.

[Unicore]

A wizard can cast spells in armor even if they are not proficient with it.

[kuey]

As so my conclusion is that since the penalty for wearing armor untrained is just -2, a wizard or sorcerer could just move around in heavy armor and still get a net bonus to AC. Not sure if that's intended... :P

[Athaleon]

kuey wrote:

As so my conclusion is that since the penalty for wearing armor untrained is just -2, a wizard or sorcerer could just move around in heavy armor and still get a net bonus to AC. Not sure if that's intended... :P

I've never worn plate armor but if someone's gonna swing at me, I'm better off having it than not.

[XinFang]

kuey wrote:

As so my conclusion is that since the penalty for wearing armor untrained is just -2, a wizard or sorcerer could just move around in heavy armor and still get a net bonus to AC. Not sure if that's intended... :P

But they can select the feat, Fighter Dedication. By doing so the wizards can become trained in all armors and many weapons easily. This will be a good choice for wizards to improve their poor AC.

[Witch of Miracles]

kuey wrote:

As so my conclusion is that since the penalty for wearing armor untrained is just -2, a wizard or sorcerer could just move around in heavy armor and still get a net bonus to AC. Not sure if that's intended... :P

Well, if you're willing to eat 4 bulk on a caster, seems fair. Especially when most of your AC comes from levels now anyways.

[Traiel]

Where do you find in the rules that you need to be trained+ in armour to be able to cast spells? I could not see anything, so it appears that you can just cast spells untrained in armour.

This.. seems weird.