Deflect allows you to parry attacks as an imediate action, so this means you can cast it reacting to your attackers agression.
What implications does this have at the start of combat? Say a sorcerer with the Deflect spell just lost initiative to an opponent who is going to attack him. Given the sorcerer doesn't have Uncanny Dodge from multiclassing, he would be considered flat footed since he just lost initiative in the first round of combat, but knowing Deflect, he can cast it as an immediate action as he reacts to the attak, so some question arise:
1. Having acted to cast the spell, is he no longer considered flat footed?
2. If 1 is the case, and if for some reason the sorcerer was wielding a weapon in his hand with wich to parry before combat broke, can the scholar use his normal parry DV, as bad as it might be being a scholar, in adition to the magic attack roll that he can use as parry defense from the spell?
3. Does he receive the benefits to parry from the spell to all attacks made against him on the round he casts Deflect?
4. Casting Deflect being an imediate action which is kind of a free action, the sorcerer has a full round to act on his turn? Albeit he won't be able to cast more spells.
What implications does this have at the start of combat? Say a sorcerer with the Deflect spell just lost initiative to an opponent who is going to attack him. Given the sorcerer doesn't have Uncanny Dodge from multiclassing, he would be considered flat footed since he just lost initiative in the first round of combat, but knowing Deflect, he can cast it as an immediate action as he reacts to the attak, so some question arise:
1. Having acted to cast the spell, is he no longer considered flat footed?
2. If 1 is the case, and if for some reason the sorcerer was wielding a weapon in his hand with wich to parry before combat broke, can the scholar use his normal parry DV, as bad as it might be being a scholar, in adition to the magic attack roll that he can use as parry defense from the spell?
3. Does he receive the benefits to parry from the spell to all attacks made against him on the round he casts Deflect?
4. Casting Deflect being an imediate action which is kind of a free action, the sorcerer has a full round to act on his turn? Albeit he won't be able to cast more spells.
