Julia said:
Sdrolion said:
Right, I got that part, but my question is what happens with it if you fail? Do you take damage as though you'd failed a combat check, or, like Mists, do you still get to roll the normal combat check?
Well, you cast the spell and in case you fail, it's a failure on a spell check, not a combat check. Thus, you can still do your combat check, but beware that for this round of combat you don't have any free hand to use weapons or other spells. It's just your fight skill then (plus eventually bonuses some very rare items; not knowing whether you play just the base Arkham or you do have some expansions, I won't go deeper on this issue), so probably you won't have any chance of beating the monster, but nonetheless you're allowed to try
Okay, thought that was probably the case. You do get your hands back after that first combat round, though, right?
