09-02-2015, 11:41 AM
Quote:Dark Affliction (Su): At 3rd level, any black magic spells that the black mage casts that causes status effects provides a penalty to saving throws against that status effect equal to -1 per two black mage levels for a duration of 1 round per two black mage levels.
My question is: How does this work exactly? Say I cast Dark (save or be Dimmed for 1d4 rounds), will this ability reduce the saving throw by 1? Does this ability still last it's duration if they succeed on the initial saving throw? Does the penalty only apply to this status effect (in this case Dimmed) or to any status effect? If it only applies to one kind of status effect, will using another spell with a different status effect end the current penalty or add another instance of this effect?
The wording is very murky (to me) and I want to have it fully understood before I get to this level and start using it.