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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LokiDR" data-source="post: 2687563" data-attributes="member: 6239">Your interpretation adds a check for the 'end of the round' where nothing else does.  The flow of a D&D combat can ignore this if not for your reading.  I say this check slows down, i.e. breaks the flow, of continues actions.I see you have been confused by my kobolds.  They are tricky.  I was speaking about a perfectly legal situation where each sorcerer cast their own spell out of their daily allotment.  This still means 16d4+16 damage ignoring AC and ethrealness.  That is dangerous at an EL 9, but perfectly valid.How is a few, note the FEW limitation, characters sharing a wand that much more powerful?  The limitation is on actions, and this tatic doesn't eliminate that restriction at all.  As a bucket can be passed between multiple people in a round, I think a wand can see multiple uses.Don't get me wrong, silly exploits are still silly exploits.  But I set the bar higher than you, I guess.  There are feats out that let a single person use multiple wands in a round.  A party can buy two half-full wands at cost of one full wand.  I think Ad Hoc Simultenaity applies if you try to get 16 people to use the same wand at the same time.  Two or three isn't a strech at all.Lets try another example, from a more modern point of view.  I have a gun, which I shoot.  Then an enemy snatches that gun from me and shoots back.  This is a typical scene in many action movies.  Its not a strech at all.  But it does happen faster than 6 seconds.  Since a wand is a spell trigger item, I think the analogy fitting.If you want a simpler example, take a group of people tossing an item along.  Person 1 throws, person 2 readies to catch and throw.  This can easily get through 4 or 6 people in six seconds, assuming short throws.  But it is a standard action to throw.  I say Ad Hoc Simultenaity keeps that chain from breaking the sound barrier, but not from a ball speed of effectively 30 MPH.</blockquote>

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