Level Up (A5E) Do material spell components always require a free hand in A5E?

[Tessarael]

A couple of further notes on this topic:

• The only V,M Bard spells are Feather Fall, Light, Mass Suggestion, Suggestion, Teleportation Circle, and Tongues.
• Proclaimer synergy feat allows Bard/Herald voice as their divine focus for Herald spells to cast spells with: V; V,M; but not V,S nor V,S,M. However, the only V,M Herald spell is the Light cantrip, so this feat portion has no real benefit.

 

[Tessarael]

And one more:

• Bladechanter feat allows Fighter/Wizard to use dual-wielded melee weapons as focus & for seen components, V, V,M; V,S,M; and V,S.

 

[TreChriron]

This needs to be made into a half-page quick-reference for download. :-D

 

[Tessarael]

One more thing to add, from page 324 of the LUA5E Adventurer's Guide:

Hands-Free Shield (+25 gp cost): "This shield mounts to your arm, leaving your hand free." Only hand-mounted weapons (brass knuckles and punching dagger) can be wielded in that hand, but it does leave the hand free to cast spells with seen and material components.

So with a hands-free shield on one arm (and not using a hand-mounted weapon on that hand), there's no need for the Battle Caster feat to perform seen components when using a weapon in your other hand.

 

[Distracted DM]

One more thing to add, from page 324 of the LUA5E Adventurer's Guide:

Hands-Free Shield (+25 gp cost): "This shield mounts to your arm, leaving your hand free." Only hand-mounted weapons (brass knuckles and punching dagger) can be wielded in that hand, but it does leave the hand free to cast spells with seen and material components.

So with a hands-free shield on one arm (and not using a hand-mounted weapon on that hand), there's no need for the Battle Caster feat to perform seen components when using a weapon in your other hand.

Yup! I've pointed this out to my players, but it only works on Light Shields which means only +1 AC instead of +2... apparently that's a dealbreaker for them :'D

edit: whoops, old post.