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<blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7295434" data-attributes="member: 6796566">You are mistaken in your reading of the rules (&quot;as written.&quot;)To drop an item is not an action or interaction, and there is no need to specifically state in the rules that you can drop an item freely. In point of fact, the rules would have to specifically state that dropping an item requires an interaction or action for that to be the case, because it is completely counter-intuitive. Here's how you know that you can drop something freely: you can do it while unconscious. That's right, an unconscious character, without the ability to move, act, or react, can (and in fact does) nevertheless drop whatever it's holding as it falls prone (note that falling prone requires none of your movement, just as dropping an item doesn't use your interaction.)There are many things a PC can do which would not use its interaction. Honestly, I don't know where this ridiculous notion that 'the only things a character can do are those which are specifically enumerated in the published rules' came from, but it runs completely contrary to the fundamental principal of D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="epithet, post: 7295434, member: 6796566"] You are mistaken in your reading of the rules ("as written.") To drop an item is not an action or interaction, and there is no need to specifically state in the rules that you can drop an item freely. In point of fact, the rules would have to specifically state that dropping an item requires an interaction or action for that to be the case, because it is completely counter-intuitive. Here's how you know that you can drop something freely: you can do it while unconscious. That's right, an unconscious character, without the ability to move, act, or react, can (and in fact does) nevertheless drop whatever it's holding as it falls prone (note that falling prone requires none of your movement, just as dropping an item doesn't use your interaction.) There are many things a PC can do which would not use its interaction. Honestly, I don't know where this ridiculous notion that 'the only things a character can do are those which are specifically enumerated in the published rules' came from, but it runs completely contrary to the fundamental principal of D&D. [/QUOTE]

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