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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6080024" data-attributes="member: 22424">As indicated up-thread, the rules don't actually say one way or another, and WotC have been inconsistent in their rulings (the FAQ and Sage Advice have both said &quot;move action&quot;, &quot;Rules of the Game&quot; says &quot;free action&quot; (which is particularly amusing since IIRC it was Skip Williams who was doing SA back when that question was asked, and he's also the author of the linked RotG).Because there's no consistent ruling, it falls to the DM to make a decision (even in a strict &quot;by the book&quot; game; obviously, in any game the DM can choose to rule either way if he wishes).As far as I can see, the requirement to spend an action to &quot;Draw&quot; a weapon is largely for balance purposes, with one of those balance purposes being exactly this sort of operation. So, yeah, I would rule that re-gripping the greatsword with the spellcasting hand would indeed require an action - in this case, the caster isn't just adjusting his grip on the weapon; he's doing that and bringing the sword back into a 'ready' position.That said, it's perhaps worth noting that the requirement for a move action to draw a weapon predates the existence of swift/minor actions in the game. It is likely that, if they were to rewrite the game now, drawing a weapon would become a swift action (and incidentally drop the weird exception about &quot;you can combine drawing with a move if your BAB is +1 or more&quot;...).IMO only, of course, and YMMV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6080024, member: 22424"] As indicated up-thread, the rules don't actually say one way or another, and WotC have been inconsistent in their rulings (the FAQ and Sage Advice have both said "move action", "Rules of the Game" says "free action" (which is particularly amusing since IIRC it was Skip Williams who was doing SA back when that question was asked, and he's also the author of the linked RotG). Because there's no consistent ruling, it falls to the DM to make a decision (even in a strict "by the book" game; obviously, in any game the DM can choose to rule either way if he wishes). As far as I can see, the requirement to spend an action to "Draw" a weapon is largely for balance purposes, with one of those balance purposes being [i]exactly[/i] this sort of operation. So, yeah, I would rule that re-gripping the greatsword with the spellcasting hand would indeed require an action - in this case, the caster isn't just adjusting his grip on the weapon; he's doing that [i]and[/i] bringing the sword back into a 'ready' position. That said, it's perhaps worth noting that the requirement for a move action to draw a weapon predates the existence of swift/minor actions in the game. It is likely that, if they were to rewrite the game now, drawing a weapon would become a swift action (and incidentally drop the weird exception about "you can combine drawing with a move if your BAB is +1 or more"...). IMO only, of course, and YMMV. :) [/QUOTE]

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