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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9619854" data-attributes="member: 93670">The spellcasting provokes an AoO thing should never have been removed just as the clearly defined and present on the character sheet body slots being turned into the same quantum clown show of armpits multiple quivers/backpacks/etc and such was a mistake.  The quantum hand slot that 5e bends over to roll out a red carpet for only serves to combine all of those design mistakes into a situation that encourages the sort of "if you the GM make an in the moment gm call in response to me as a player inventing new rules to break the already ridiculously overly lax rules on free hands & casting I'm going to cite raw and mechanics that you are violating or maybe find a Crawford clip where wotc says holding your weapon in your armpit so you can cast a spell without it in your hand is RAI" disruption in play where the GM looks bad no matter what & everyone ignores that the player is inventing rules.  It's the kind of disruption in play that I have no interest in derailing my sessions with, no matter how it's settled, that in the moment stretch and narrative result lost the moment and nobody cares about anything but the annoying disruption that delayed their next turn even more.</blockquote>