Talent/Spell of the Week: Pathfinder

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by Skarg

Yes, it should, and does, no? Where are you getting that it's always successfully cast?

The spell description reads: .

And I would NOT do it like Henry wrote, but like other information spells, the GM would roll for casting, too, and on a failure, they'd not know whether they failed their casting, or succeeded but didn't detect anything, especially because the GM could/should roll the casting, and then even on a failure, roll several more times, making "hmm" sounds, so the players don't get meta-clues.

If the spell fails, it only costs 1 ST, so the player would know that it fails and if it critically fails, they'd know that all of the information given would be false. So, while the description does say "When this spell is cast successfully," one needs to have it be successful if they want to fool the player w/a critical failure.