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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nac_Mac_Feegle" data-source="post: 2789198" data-attributes="member: 32300">Your action is to cast. If your action was to hit someone with your sword, then its still readied in defence. If casting was a move equivelent action, then your okay, but its an attack action, so for the purpose of the whole round, your attack action is to cast a spell, not have the weapon ready.Although saying that, if you havent moved, you can ready the sword as move equivalent, so you can cast and have the 2 hander ready, but if you move and cast, your attack action is to cast for the round, and as you have moved, the sword is unreadied. It can be got around in theory with either Quickdraw to ready for a free action, or quicken speell, so the spell is a free action.You might also rule that to hold a 1 handed weapon, and cast with the other hand, would incure 2 weapon penalties, but thats probably going to far.The point is, to use a 2 handed weapon to effectively threaten someone, it must be in 2 hands, so you either either equip it or you dont, it cant be equipped-not equipped-equipped again all in one round, I dont know seasoned fighters who can do that, let alone a spellcaster.The rules state it takes a move equivelent action to equip a weapon, unless you have quick draw, and I would allow spellcasting and threatening if you have quickdraw, because your investing feats to do it.In the combat round the way I see it, wiht a 2 hander, your choices areMove + Attack, thereby able to threatenMove + Spellcast, holding 2 hander 1 handed an unable to threatenStand still, cast spell, and equip weapon as move equivalent, thereby able to threatentheres only so much you can do in a round, and its clearly tabled within the PhB as to what is move equivalent and what is attack action and what is a free actionFeegle Out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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