Recent content by TheSword

Spells please. With bonus points if you fancy linking it into a kind of pages from the mages structure with a bit of a theme. Bonus-bonus points if that theme is heist related, pirate/nautical related, desert related or jungle related. Only one vote that said magic items would also be great...

??? I like to call it the Elven Longsword.

A good point well made. I definitely need to tone down my rhetoric.

Interesting Sage advice as well thanks for sharing. If readying a magic item spell doesn’t even expend charges or require concentration that further undermines the balance argument and all the more reason to take a less permissive around the ambiguity.

So it doesn’t require an action to use it working with merely a thought? Or do you think that it defaults to the Magic Action as per the Magic item introduction?

That in your opinion it isn’t unbalanced, is not a justification to say it’s a good face value reading of the rule. You might think it’s balanced but the Devs clearly didn’t want two spells to be cast with Action Surge whether by spellcasting or magic item. Which is why they specifically...

Ready Action: Any spell you can cast I can cast better. I can cast anything better than you. Magic Action: No you cant Ready Action: Yes I can Magic Action: No you can’t Ready Action: Yes I can Magic Action: No you can’t Ready Action: Yes I can, Yes I can, Yes I can!

I accept what you’re saying up to a point. Whether it’s a delay to the end of a six second window though It’s still a delay. Speed of casting is still dependent on initiative and spells have to be cast in some form of order right. Otherwise you’d never have reaction spells. The structure of a...

That is simply not the case. The reason those abilities don’t work is because they both clearly state the extra attacks must be linked to an attack on your turn. Not because Ready doesn’t count as an Attack action. The very fact that it had to be spelled out so explicitly is evidence that it...

For me, Dark Seldarine worshipping Drow are as a general rule a pretty nasty bunch. Though there are exceptions and I would not object to a good or neutral drow PC. Just most Drow you meet in my games are going to be bad guys. There are definitely communities of Drow worshipping the Sword...

Nevertheless it is a delay. That’s it’s called when you cause something to happen later than it would normally happen. Any way. You do you. Points have been made by all sides. Not interested in a game of “yes it is - no it isn’t - yes it is”.

It’s a unique catch-all action that allows most of the other actions on the list to used out of turn. That’s it. Nothing else. Suggesting that it’s in some sort of special class of Uber action that can mimic other actions without drawbacks is just bizarre. It’s included in that list because...

Ready absolutely is a delay. That is literally what it does. No one is being forced to do anything. You’re using a staff to cast a spell. Getting hung up on what you call that doesn’t really matter. All that said, we’re going round in circles here. You’ve made your mind up and won’t be...

This is an older post but worth saying that This is circular logic. You’re saying they’re different because one can be used to with action surge and the other can’t. But the only reason it can be used with action surge is because you’re saying they’re different. You haven’t actually identified...