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Can you charge and cast spells?
If you don't manage to cast spell.. can you cast any other spells that turn?

1) Yes, you can declare a charge and still cast, assuming the spells you cast can be cast while in combat (if you make it, that is!)

This is because, UNLIKE shooting, there is no prohibition on spell casting after movement.

2) If you fail to reach the casting value of a spell, you are *usually* free to cast another spell. The exception is if you roll a 1 or 2 on your dice (unmodified) in which case "not enough power" (from memory...) kicks in, and you lose concentration preventing you from casting further that turn.

Actually Nos...

If the total of the dice are a natural 1 or 2, you automatically fail.
pg 32 Not Enough Power: "No matter how powerful a Wizard might be, he cannot cast a spell where the total of the natural dice scores is less than 3."

And

If you fail to cast the spell, that Wizard done for the turn for casting.

pg 32 Broken Concentration: "If a Wizard fails to equal a spell's casting value, or the total of the natural dice scores is a 1 or 2, not only is the spell not cast, but the Wizard... is unable to cast spells for the rest of the Magic phase."

As to charging and casting, yep, you can as there is nothing that stops you.

*Edit* Chaged you to that Wizard.

Close, failing to cast a spell also prevents you from casting further that turn. "Not Enough Power" just says if your total dice roll is 1 or 2 that even if you do meet the casting value of the spell, you still fail to cast.


(pg 32 of the big rule book, don't have the small one with me.)


Automatically Appended Next Post:
ouch, beaten by almost a minute XD

It's all good, the more the merrier

Gah, brain fart back to 7th ed. Remembered that replacement for minimum casting = 3, but forgot failing to cast means you're done as well....