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I was looking at the spells section and this struck me: Casting Time Most spells require the Magic action to cast, but some spells...

Ok so the contention is about whether or not the Ready action used to cast a spell is actually a Magic Action. I don't have a horse in...

No, it is the same, in every case it means you wasted an actual action. For the Attack action it means you never attacked and lost the...

that is what happens on your turn, you just do not release the effect yet, because you decided to instead wait for a trigger to unleash it

yes, kinda, we are describing the same thing, but with a different emphasis how so, Ready delays all actions, that is not specific to...

Don't hold your breath! Chris Perkins said, when the new DMG first came out, that WotC wasn't planning to revisit Greyhawk any time...

By that logic you cannot use any of the other actions via the Ready action either. What the Ready 'action' really does is delay your...

agreed, it describes that casting spells is done by using the Magic action. Why would that be under the Ready action... Here is what...

the Ready action 'wraps around;' the Magic action (or another action), it is not an action by itself. "First, you decide what...

Taking the Magic action to cast it is obviously what you do, even if the spell does not say so explicitly, that would be redundant. Also...

True, I was typing quickly and meant to say action surge, but somehow wrote Haste. And I do think that's correct. I interpret "cast as...

...doesn't the ready action necessitate taking the action you're readying? the section about how to ready a spell even says you "cast it...

For me, this adds needless complexity. "Cast as normal" IMO means cast using the magic action (as normal) and the ready action allows...

I very much dislike this kind of thing. I’ll grant it is a neat rules hack. I do think it leads to a ratcheting down of rules trying to...

Ah I see, you see the Ready action as performing the spellcasting rather than it needing a Magic action to do so, with the Ready part...