I agree that you should never find yourself where you have extras unless you take a Lvl1 and get 4 dice and don't want to throw 4 dice at her one spell, increasing miscast chance, but then you can't waste them on something else anyway since you can only cast each spell once, but then you just have to eat the hits, b/c you accepted the risk when casting PoD on a Lvl1.Mordru wrote:Casting spells yu know are going to fail comes under the same heading as intentionally declaring charges you know you cannot make IMO.
Personally, I doubt I will ever be throwing 5-6 dice at a magic missile. You are just asking for a miscast for spell like chillwind, doombolt or the like. Not very good play I think.
HOWEVER, I disagree that it is like a failed charge, because: charging rules explicitly state you can't do that and if you intentionally declare a failed charge you know it's going to help you, with no downside (unless you're ... slow), whereas attempting to cast a spell at a target you can't reach will help you avoid those hits but you have a chance of a miscast, as well, so there is a downside. Now if you say "I'm going to try to cast this 8+ on 1 die" then that would not be in the spirit of the game, but if it's 2 dice on a spell legally possible (so anything but Kroak's 14+) at a target out of range, well, you're taking a risk. But really, this should not happen to a clever player.