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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9268487" data-attributes="member: 93670">.I pointed it out in the asterisk'd point in the post you quoted but I'm going to quote myself to save a lot of effortbecause I previously collected the rules disaster in one post <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-one-d-d-playtest-document-77-pages-7-classes-more.698499/post-9082123" target="_blank">here</a>.[spoiler=&quot;Don't PC's need a focus item to cast cantrips or leveled spells?&quot;]...[/spoiler]That mess was actually made worse rather than changing or adding&nbsp; literally anything at all to improve that with things like a clear requirement written into the magic action itself or by adding a section to/alongside&nbsp; in parallel to the weapons table for different types of focus items meeting the needs &amp; wants of different flavors of spellcaster role/niche.&nbsp; Doing a quick ctrl-F to all of the onednd UA packets the word &quot;focus item&quot; was found exactly zero times but it became explicitly trivial to juggle a focus item in/out of active use in quite a few packets. That trivialization means that it's not possible to have something like a hard to juggle &amp; maybe awkward focus item built for the needs &amp; wants of heavy duty casters who are the most &quot;castery of casters&quot;* without also giving it to less castery gish or even dabbler types because gish types &amp; dabblers don't have needs &amp; wants for things like ease of swapping, discretion, or whatever.*as Crawford might say</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9268487, member: 93670"] . I pointed it out in the asterisk'd point in the post you quoted but I'm going to quote myself to save a lot of effortbecause I previously collected the rules disaster in one post [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-one-d-d-playtest-document-77-pages-7-classes-more.698499/post-9082123']here[/URL]. [spoiler="Don't PC's need a focus item to cast cantrips or leveled spells?"] . . . [/spoiler] That mess was actually made worse rather than changing or adding literally anything at all to improve that with things like a clear requirement written into the magic action itself or by adding a section to/alongside in parallel to the weapons table for different types of focus items meeting the needs & wants of different flavors of spellcaster role/niche. Doing a quick ctrl-F to all of the onednd UA packets the word "focus item" was found exactly zero times but it became explicitly trivial to juggle a focus item in/out of active use in quite a few packets. That trivialization means that it's not possible to have something like a hard to juggle & maybe awkward focus item built for the needs & wants of heavy duty casters who are the most "castery of casters"* without also giving it to less castery gish or even dabbler types because gish types & dabblers don't have needs & wants for things like ease of swapping, discretion, or whatever. *as Crawford might say [/QUOTE]

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