Magus_Jerel said:
1. The text in the first part DOES NOT EXIST in a fashion that is EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. The text pointed out that it needs to be "my turn" to INITIATE My actions - thus the term initiative. It need not be My turn to REACT TO actions - in a passive or active fashion.
A quickened spell is not a Reaction, it's an Action.
You can react on someone elses turn, but that's generally a Reflex save or an awareness check of some sort (i.e. Listen, Spot, etc.)
You can only Act on your own turn.
2. your insistence that feather fall is an exception relies on the assumption that the text EXPRESSLY exists - which it does not.
Yes it does. PHB glossary, page 278, free action.
3. I have pointed out where a free action needed an explicit prohibition of being "taken at any time" namely that of a barbarians rage, Implying by presence that you CAN take a free action in response to another action - even one not your own, unless the action says otherwise.
The barbarians rage is not an exception, it's just pointing out that it follows the rules of a free action. The PHB is often redundant to make sure people don't miss things like that.
4. You would go a step farther I think - saying that you cannot take any action on someone else's turn AT ALL. I am stating that you CAN - but you cannot INITIATE actions when it is "not your turn".
I'm not going farther, I'm following the stated rules. Trying to state that Quickened spells can be used to cast outside your turn is both ridiculous and overpowered. Wake up and smell the coffe.
5. Logic Thread:
Casting a quickened spell is a free action
- table 8-4 pg 128 PHB
True.
A free action can be taken in conjunction with another action
- Glossary definition; free action
True.
This action NEED NOT BE your own action
- super duper quantum leap that seems impossible to Caliban et al.
Yes, this is a quantum leap of logic. Nowhere in the rules does it state this, and in fact this is the exact opposite of the intent and letter of the rules.
"In conjunction with another action" very clearly means in conjunction with an action you are taking.
Chapter and verse please. Unless you can find somewhere in the core rules that explicitly states that you can use a free action during someone elses action, you are quite simply wrong.
Conclusion:
it is possible to use a quickened spell to interrupt you opponent's action - such as his casting a spell.
Conclusion: You can only use a Quickened spell on your own action.