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Message: <blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 4148122" data-attributes="member: 39815">How do the actions work on this spell? To repeat the pertinent data:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Takes a minor action to cast.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The hand picks up, moves, or manipulates an adjacent object weighing 20 pounds or less and carries it up to 5 squares."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"As a move action, you can move the hand 5 squares."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"...as a minor action, you can cause the hand to pick up or manipulate a different object."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Takes a minor action to sustain.</li> </ul>Questions:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Can the hand pick up and move an object up to 5 squares as part of the original minor action to cast, or does moving it require a separate move action?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the minor action used to pick up an object part of the minor action to cast or sustain, or does it require a separate minor action? If so, what's the point of making pick-up a minor action, when a minor action is always required to cast or sustain the spell (unless there are unseen rules that allow wizards to ignore some minor-action requirements with feats or class abilities)?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How many and what kind of actions are required to sustain a mage hand, use it to pick something up, and move it up to 5 squares? One minor to sustain, another minor to pick up, and a move action to move it? If so, that's the caster's whole turn (barring action points).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How many and what kind of actions are required to sustain a mage hand and move it up to 5 squares? Minor to sustain, and a move action to move it? If so, the caster has one standard action left; if he or she wants to walk along with the mage hand, that's all of the caster's actions.</li> </ol>In retrospect, I guess it's fine if it requires a caster's full attention to do a lot of things with mage hand. I had an image of a wizard moving around the battlefield, fighting enemies with a mage hand-carried sunrod in tow, but maybe that's not really what it's for.</blockquote>

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