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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2794487" data-attributes="member: 63">This is a bizarre argument to me. Has anyone here ever fought with weapons, even in fencing? It is not hard at all to go from holding a weapon to defending yourself with a weapon, as long as you're aware of your foe. Now sure, I can understand not being able to wield a greatsword at the very instant you cast a spell -- [hq]say an enemy in melee with you readies an action to cast a spell if you cast a spell; as you cast your spell, he casts his, and for that moment you don't threaten and so can't attack back[/hq] -- I can accept this.But to suggest that, by virtue of momentarily not fighting you lose the ability to threaten people for an entire round is foolish.I mean, as far as I know there's no rule listing how difficult it is to 'ready' a weapon. No where in the rules does it even say youhave to ready weapons. It looks like the rules assume that if you are holding the weapon with the requisite number of hands, you are 'wielding' it, and thus are able to threaten people with it. That's my experience with boffer fighting and fencing, and since the rules don't say anything about needing to prepare a weapon, I think it's obvious that you can, as posted way back in this thread:1. Take a hand off the weapon (free action).2. Use that hand to cast the spell (standard action).3. Put your hand back on the weapon and be considered to be wielding the weapon (free action).4. Use a move action for whatever you want (move action).Hell, I'd even let you, if you were wielding a bastard sword without an exotic weapon proficiency, take your hand off the weapon, cast a spell, make an attack of opportunity in the middle of casting a spell with a -4 nonproficiency penalty, and then put your hand back on the weapon.</blockquote>

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