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I think there’s also a meaningful difference between repurposing an encounter you prepared but didn’t end up happening where you originally planned for it to so that work doesn’t go to waste, vs. shuffling things around behind the curtain to force an encounter to happen no matter where the...

I do quite like the idea of the Estoc as a versatile finesse weapon. I’d make it 1d6 one handed and 2d4 two handed. Piercing damage, obviously.

And as I said, it wasn’t written that way even though it easily could have been, (and even more easily could have been written exactly the same way, in a separate header after the Actions instead of among them) which to me is a strong indication that it is very much intended to be an Action...

I said this before, but maybe you missed it; I don’t consider “that creature moves a muscle” to be a perceptible trigger. It’s too subtle. Though, it may be a moot point if it’s perceptible or not, since you take the Reaction after the trigger, if one did consider it perceptible, I would argue...

Intentionally breaking concentration is still breaking concentration.

I like this a lot. I’ve struggled in the past to find the right words to explain why the classic quantum ogre doesn’t strike me as limiting player agency in any way that really matters, despite the fact that I fundamentally agree that if the same outcome occurs no matter what the players do...

If you don’t maintain concentration until the specified trigger, the resources spent to cast the spell are lost. This is explicitly stated in the rules for the Ready Action.

🤷‍♀️ it’s an action. It’s in the Actions section, and the rules consistently reference and treat it as an Action. Performing it costs the use of your one Action per turn. Regardless of how its rules for resolution may be different than the rules for resolving other Actions, it is in all ways...

Good point!

But it literally is classified by the rules as an Action. You can certainly argue that it shouldn’t be, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is.

Is it different than other Actions? Yes. Does this make it not an Action? No.

The concentration is also a real cost that I feel like people keep glossing over. Even if the trigger happens very quickly afterwards, you can only concentrate on one spell at a time, so to do this you would have to drop your active concentration spell (you do have an active concentration spell...

Just this one:

OR, hear me out: 3) they thought that having to spend your action and reaction and your concentration, and still have a chance that the trigger never comes up or you lose concentration, was sufficient additional drawbacks and costs that casting a spell this way was reasonable and didn’t need to...

I don’t even think this is a matter of “finding” some special interaction. It’s just the most straightforward reading of the rules. Action Surge says you can’t use it to take the Magic Action. The Ready Action is not the Magic Action. Since you can cast a spell with either action, I think it’s...

I just headcanon them to estocs

I’m not just trying to find a technical way to justify an exploit. This is the genuine, good-faith interpretation I have arrived at based on my best understanding of the rules. Just because it differs from yours doesn’t mean it’s an attempt to exploit a loophole, and I’ll give you the benefit of...

You’re on page 23 of a thread arguing about whether or not it is. So, let’s go with “unclear.”

It would. If that was the intent. It may not have been. I don’t believe it was.