Talk:Spook/@comment-37.201.241.51-20180517164410/@comment-37.201.241.181-20180531160344

So I did a bit of testing.

4 pure Mages, all at lv12. Loaded three of them up with Spook and Deafness, the fourth (the target) got a Save vs Spell = 0

The three mages used Spook until one of them succeeded, then they spammed Deafness on him.

About every fourth Spook succeeded, but Deafness under the Spook influence not once (I just tested for about half an hour though).

So I'm pretty sure now that the in the spell description described penalty only affects the Spook spell, not other spells cast when the target is panicked. Two other arguments would further support this theory.

1. "Illusionists may cast this spell with -8 (-6-2) save penalty once they reach lv12" This sentence implies that the penalty only affects the Spook spell

2. And more importantly, Spook would be seriously overpowered/unbalanced if Saving Throws would be reduced by 6 (compare to Greater Malison or Doom). This is still a lv1 spell after all.

Nonetheless, I would be happy about some more opinions on this matter, because my testing definitive.