[OgreLXXV]

Looking for some clarification.  I understand that Magic Resistance adds dice to a character's  Spell Resistance Test pool, even if it is a "friendly" spell.  However, considering illusion spells are resisted by those who see it, what is the effect of Magic Resistance when trying to cast Improved Invisibility on the character?  By the rules, it seems that the "target" gets additional dice to resist the spell, but success in resisting simply grants that character the ability to see through the illusion of invisibility...meaning he can see himself?  Don't others still need to resist individually when looking at him?  Is there instead an additional Spell Resistance Test to see if the Invisibility takes hold at all?

Thanks in advance for your input.

[Falconer]

Some spells have both a target... and a subject of the spell.   Detection spells being the prime example...

The target of the spell is the item the detection spell senses... or the illusion spell deceives.. the subject is the recipient of the spell's benefits.   Normally they're unresisted spells for the subject.


Technically speaking... the spell has no spell resistance test for the subject... so the magic resistance quality would not trigger for that condition.   Only people trying to view the subject... are considered the targets of the spell and roll to resist.   *BUT* the quality also says that even beneficial spells like heal which normally aren't resisted are resisted by the quality.  So the illusion cast on him would be resisted, but only by the magic resistance dice at time of casting reducing the difficulty threshold to pierce the illusion for any targets of the spell who see him.


The spell would work... just instead of being threshold 4... resistance might drop it to threshold 3 for the targets of the spell trying to see through the illusion if the resistant character unconsciously rolled 1 success on 4 magic resistance reducing the net successes on the spell.    I would not add the subject's magic resistance to each and every target of the spell trying to look through.

[OgreLXXV]

Thanks for the response.  That makes a lot of sense.