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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8371825" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I always try to carry a component pouch and a focus on my PCs for this reason.If you are using the disarm optional rule it is clearly allowed, although it is not that simple.&nbsp; RAW it is dropped at the casters feat and can then be picked up on his turn and used.&nbsp; For you or someone else to pick it up would be another action and it too would typically be contested since it is in his space, not yours.&nbsp; Another option if you have extra attack is to disarm, then shove, then move over it and pick it up as a free interaction.As another option, if it is not being held it is doable by an arcane trickster with his invisible mage hand legerdemain as a bonus action.&nbsp; This is a clean one bonus action to get it&nbsp; (assuming the hand is already been cast) or as an action to cast mage hand followed by a bonus action ti use it, but still doable on one turn.&nbsp; IME in actual gameplay the most common way for a focus to get taken in combat - our of a case/pouch/belt by an arcane trickster.You could also do it with a regular slight of hand, but that is typically going to be with disadvantage in combat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8371825, member: 7030563"] I always try to carry a component pouch and a focus on my PCs for this reason. If you are using the disarm optional rule it is clearly allowed, although it is not that simple. RAW it is dropped at the casters feat and can then be picked up on his turn and used. For you or someone else to pick it up would be another action and it too would typically be contested since it is in his space, not yours. Another option if you have extra attack is to disarm, then shove, then move over it and pick it up as a free interaction. As another option, if it is not being held it is doable by an arcane trickster with his invisible mage hand legerdemain as a bonus action. This is a clean one bonus action to get it (assuming the hand is already been cast) or as an action to cast mage hand followed by a bonus action ti use it, but still doable on one turn. IME in actual gameplay the most common way for a focus to get taken in combat - our of a case/pouch/belt by an arcane trickster. You could also do it with a regular slight of hand, but that is typically going to be with disadvantage in combat. [/QUOTE]

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