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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sullivan" data-source="post: 1988925" data-attributes="member: 28152">Re: Power o'de'Cantrip Before even the issue of assigning a level you have included a metamagic within the spell. Featherfall does this for purely D&D legacy reasons (there were ways around having the spell function as it does but most likely rejected for flavour reasons). It should not be done in new spells. He wants it speeded up? Then take Quicken and burn the appropriate spell slot. Otherwise he can create a free action magical item based on the 1 action casting version of the cantrip. Call it Glove of Defiance, that will do it at will with a free action finger motion. Pricy? Oh hell ya, but true style doesn't come cheap. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Re: When to Ready Good rule of thumb is to take the sure shot, doubly so if they have more than one attack from a full attach. If I Readied the mages could bob and weave, duck and cover, pull out a magic item and roast me, etc. I'd have to be damn sure the mage will cast to ready on him. Especially when you are covering with a ranged weapon instead of face-to-face with melee since he do a full move and cast. Heck, I don't even know if he has spell left to cast unless I was giving my GM knowledge to an NPC that shouldn't have it...which happens but to be fair shouldn't happen regularly. So it has to be a very senario specific situation where I'd Ready over taking the shot. If I was that worried about the mage casting i'd have someone with Dispel Magic sitting on him instead. Unless I'm doing some serious damage or he has a low Concentration (unlikely) odds are probably much better of a decent mage counterspelling. Personally if I was a playing a spell caster at your table within a few sessions I'd be chuckling and screwing with your tactics best I could. [EDIT: And not even bothering with Featherfall, plenty of other room]. Karinsdad might think tactics such as intentionally drawing an AoO is in bad taste, but I've done it (or tried to) a number of times. Usually to damage soak to cover for another partymember. Of course it's a calculated risk as Combat Reflexes does exist.... Anyway to use a seasonal analogy, just like in football you almost always take the points you can instead of throwing them away for points you might get.</blockquote>

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