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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7412066" data-attributes="member: 996">That's a lotta lecturing and a little information.  The key is that you had a blanket ruling already in place that prevents a disarmed opponent from simply picking the blade back up 'for free' on his turn, which is what a typical read of the PH would probably lead a player to expect......moral of the story, take no apparent rule for granted, always ask your DM. It's not just genre conventions, it's D&D's own conventions, magic-users were always allergic to melee, even in 3.x, at the height of the wizard's brokenness, you had to powergame a little to make a caster that could function well in melee, in 4e most spells at least still provoked in melee.   But, the trend on WotC's watch has been towards wizards being at home in melee.  3.5 did let you max concentration and take feats to melee effectively while casting spells, 4e did give the wizard more than a couple of non-provoking 'Close' spells, and 5e removed OA & interruption of spell casting entirely.  So 5e has gone against not only genre & common sense 'realism' (nothing really realistic once you've accepted magic, but FWIW), but D&D's own long tradition of /casters staying the F out of melee when casting/, when it has, in most other ways, been profoundly respectful of tradition.</blockquote>