WTF? As a Cleric, I can't cast Great Magic Weapon spell after summoning an undead.

[Jhonrock]

Is there some game mechanic I'm not aware of? I have GMW spell prepared, I can cast it without any problem on me or on my henchman, but the moment I summon an undead skeleton warrior, the spell becomes uncasteable. I can select it, the game still show the number of that spell I have prepared, but the momento I select it, nothing happens. I can't cast it on me or anyone else anymore.

[Wizard of Woz]

More than likely both are concentration spells.

[wendigo211]

No concentration mechanic in 3e. That's a 5e abomination.

[wendigo211]

Originally posted by Jhonrock:

Is there some game mechanic I'm not aware of? I have GMW spell prepared, I can cast it without any problem on me or on my henchman, but the moment I summon an undead skeleton warrior, the spell becomes uncasteable. I can select it, the game still show the number of that spell I have prepared, but the momento I select it, nothing happens. I can't cast it on me or anyone else anymore.

Do you have any mods installed? Is it just GMW or any of your other spells? Do you have defensive casting mode active? Try disabling that and see if you can cast it. Defensive casting makes you pass a skill check before you can cast a spell. At low levels your concentration skill is probably too low to pass it reliably.

I just checked in game, I had no problem casting Create Undead and then casting GMW.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by wendigo211:

No concentration mechanic in 3e. That's a 5e abomination.

Actually 3.5e did have concentration.

Heres a quote.
Further, any spells that require continued concentration may require subsequent concentration checks to maintain that spell for another round. Lastly, according to traditional 3.5 rules, you cannot cast another spell while you are currently concentrating for another duration spell.

Concentrating to Maintain a Spell

Some spells require continued concentration to keep them going. Concentrating to maintain a spell is a standard action that doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity.


But since you can cast it, must be something else going on.

[Jhonrock]

Originally posted by wendigo211:

Originally posted by Jhonrock:

Is there some game mechanic I'm not aware of? I have GMW spell prepared, I can cast it without any problem on me or on my henchman, but the moment I summon an undead skeleton warrior, the spell becomes uncasteable. I can select it, the game still show the number of that spell I have prepared, but the momento I select it, nothing happens. I can't cast it on me or anyone else anymore.

Do you have any mods installed? Is it just GMW or any of your other spells? Do you have defensive casting mode active? Try disabling that and see if you can cast it. Defensive casting makes you pass a skill check before you can cast a spell. At low levels your concentration skill is probably too low to pass it reliably.

I just checked in game, I had no problem casting Create Undead and then casting GMW.

Nope, that problem only happens with that. I tried to remove it from my spellbook and then add it again, tried to change the shortcut slot, but nothing worked. Without the skeleton warrior summoned, I can cast it, with the skeleton warrior summoned, I can't.

Pretty crazy ♥♥♥♥. Not a single mod installed, just the base game. No feat or skill activated too.

Just one thing, I'm having this problem on the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

[wendigo211]

I don't know about the Switch version... Can you verify game files like you can on Steam? It might be time to fill out a bug report with Beamdog.

[Shiroi Ren]

Strange, never heard that Animate Dead would block GMW. New bug?

[Jhonrock]

Originally posted by Shiroi Ren:

Strange, never heard that Animate Dead would block GMW. New bug?

Seems like that's the case. To be honest, I'm seriously thinking in dropping the playthrough there. I bought the Nintendo Switch version first because NWN is one of my most beloved games of all time, second because the possibility of playing this game on the go was quite alluring. Being old as f*ck, I thought the game would run nicely on the Nintendo Switch. Nicely my a*s!!!! I runs like crap. I can easily run this game at 120fps on my PC, but in the Nintendo Switch, this game seems to run at 20fps most of the time, even lower when several enemies are on the screen or when spell effects are being played.

Ps.; Is the PS4 version bad like the Switch?

[Mordaedil]

How many times are you preparing Greater Magic Weapon?

[Jhonrock]

Originally posted by Mordaedil:

How many times are you preparing Greater Magic Weapon?

2, one for me, one for my skeleton warrior. But the momento I summon it, the spell becomes unavailable. Its icon collor becomes dark, but it still shows that I have two casts.