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Was reading HE book last night and came across Ring of fury.As an enchanted item can anyone have it? Can it be dispelled, if so, how many dispel points does it need? It is a bound spell (power level 3)

Thanks, RB

Bound Spells:

Used in the magic phase

Anyone can use them, not just wizards, unless of course they are arcane items. (so anyone can have the one you mentioned)

They are cast with normal power dice out of the power pool and the power level is what is needed to beat to cast the spell (so in your case a 3 or more is needed). But if carried by a wizard, his wizard level makes no difference on the casting roll, niether do any magic items carried.

The spell cast is always the first level of power, i.e if it was fireball it would be the fireball that inflicts D6 hits.

If the spell is failed, and it is held by a wizard, it does not break his concentration so other spells can be cast normally.

They can be dispelled normally, or with a dispel scroll, or be affected by other scrolls, i.e sivejir's hex scroll.

All other rules regarding spells (unless they are an exception above) affect them i.e irresistible force etc...

I think i've covered everything.

I must be missing something because it states no power dice are needed to cast. The spell is contained in the enchanted ring.

RB

What you are missing is that this is 8th ed, not 7th. In 7th you did not use powerdice to cast bound spells, but the enemy only had to beat the value (3 in this case) in order to dispel. Now you treat the bound spell as the value to cast at, and use power dice as normal.

Also, if you roll a double 6 the spell is cast with irresistible force but no roll on the miscast table is made. Instead the item can't be used again that game.

In fact the item self destructs or something.

ANd, if it were an item, it crumbles - meaning an Item inside a banner caues the banner to crumble.

Yes and that. (I knew i couldn't have covered everything)

Just a question on this crumbling thing, you said if a banner for instance were to crumble then there would be no more banner in the unit? so it loses all its standard bearer bonus?

And also does this mean if for instance you had a hero with a magic weapon that had a bound spell and it crumbled would he lose the ability to attack? Or for something like the corpse cart which is a unit with a bound spell would it die?

I cannot say for sure what would happen in the case of the corpse cart. All models however are assumed to have a hand weapon. If your magical weapon had a bound spell, and you casted that bound spell with Irresistable force, then yes your weapon would crumble. You would then attack with what should be considered a normal hand weapon, and you would attack based on your profile alone. Magical bonuses from the weapon would be gone.

Yes, if the banner crumbles they no longer have a banner. Simples.

If you have a magic sword with a bound spell in it (cant think of any right now) and you IF, the sword would crumble. THis means you no l0onger have the magic weapon, and you can only attack with a hand weapon. Same if you have a bound spell in a shield, etc.

Same for a corpse cart. The cart, if that is the "item", crumbles. Its a simple rule!

It should be noted that the corpse cart casts its bound spell as an innate ability- and thus does not crumble...

Source: VC FAQ

Q. Is the casting of bound spells from the Corpse Cart an ‘innate’
ability? (p43)
A. Yes.