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Not really IME. Crit damage against one enemy with a near automatic jump is very common though. I am playing a Fighter1/Warlock4 with Chromatic Orb through Magic Initiate and if an enemy is held with Hold Person or something that is going to be her go to - walk up next to the held enemy and...

What I responded to suggested a Ranger with spells be a subclass, so there would be Rangers with spells, they would just occupy a very narrow subset of Ranger and presumably not get any spells until the subclass. Sure, but that is not really compatible with the idea of a D&D Ranger for many...

Yes exactly, MOST and you don't take the Magic Action when you use any of the things I mentioned above to cast a spell with a casting time of one action. You take a different kind of action for all those examples - a Bonus Action or an Attack Action, or in the cast of a contingent spell you...

Most magic items that cast spells change the DC and they don't use this verbiage - Wand of Fear, Wand of Fireballs, Instrument of the Bards .....

It is not though. There are numerous exceptions to that - Quicken Spell, War Magic, Mantle of Majesty, Battle Magic, War Caster, Contingency .... IMO Ready a Spell is another one of those exceptions. It says it for the Demonocon of Iggwilv too and that does not change the spell at all. I...

TBH I don't know why Rapier is a different weapon than Longsword.

I agree with your entire thesis except the part in red. I play more Rangers than any other class, but it is their flexibility that enables this. Part of this is I don't feel constrained by the fiction surrounding the class. The class is just mechanics, I make the fiction for my PCs and the...

I don't really like that idea. If you want to play a clas without spells play a class that doesn't have spells. I would feel pretty cheated if other Rangers got additional things because they did not get spells. I want that stuff and spells too. Also you have the problem that players who...

Back to the original post. After reflection I think Robin Hood is a Fighter - Outstanding swordsman, superior Archer. If you are giving him a subclass it is probably Battlemaster with Precision, Ambush and Riposte. I could see Rogue too, especially if you are going to downplay the combat part...

Yeah so the numbers I posted are the numbers I calcuated for those. Many more use the Magic action. For the most part this is correct, in most cases if it is a spell it says you can cast XXXX while if it is not an actual spell it says use a Magic action to XXX There are very few cases where...

I would say it is pretty clear it is NOT the Magic Action.

But this is not prohibited, there are numerous other clearly legal ways to cast multiple spells with a casting time of an action in one turn and we know from the interviews this is intentional. The only time you are restricted from using multiple spells with an action casting time is when they...

I disagree, because the action you are using is Ready and they wasted PLENTY of space saying Magic action over and over and over agin throughout both the 2024 PHB and DMG. We can say confidently that WOTC regularly and routinely wasted space in both books writing "Magic action". Looking at the...

For ones with features to activate, yes easily. Now if you are including a +1 Sword or a Ring of Resistance than no, because most don't require any action they are just constantly functioning. But if you are talking about magic items that require an action to use/activate yes. By my count 68...

The word normal was in the 2014 PHB before a Magic action was even a thing. If your argument is "normal" = Magic aciton, why did they already have that verbiage in the 2014 PHB when there was no such thing as a Magic action? 2014: When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its...

So there is a ton of errors, but this the ONLY place they neglected to use the term "Magic action" AND they did not fix it in any errata they published. Yeah, I am not buying that.

The "normal" you are quoting in fact comes from the description of the Ready action in the rules glossary. That use of "normal" you are quoting is specific to the Ready action. The phrase "When you Ready a spell, you cast it as normal..." only appears in the description of the Ready action...

With repect to "Magic action" this would be the only place they missed it then. They use that term over and over and over again even when it is obvious, it would be very peculiar to leave it out here considering the way the rest of the books are written.

It is very relevant, it just does not refer to the action IMO. You can't for example ready Command to trigger when the enemy runs around the corner. The reason is the "normal" way you cast that spell requires you to see the target and you can't see it before the enemy runs around the corner...

This to me is the biggest reason it does not require a Magic action. The rules to "ready a spell" are specific rules that overide the general rules for using the ready action when you use the ready action to cast a spell. If the designers wanted the ready action to use the Magic action to...