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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 3568746" data-attributes="member: 111">The most consistent answer might be "No." - Or in the alternative, he cannot cast the spell while holding a two-handed weapon.The rules seem to be set up to keep it from being too easy to cast a spell - you must have hand free.  If you allow one to shift things around, cast the spell, and then shift back, you have effectively nullified the requirement to have a hand free, which sounds like violating the rules to me.In this case, given the lack of actual rule, it seems like the rules on drawing a weapon would be the best, most balanced approach.  All too often it seems like the cleric wants to use a two-handed weapon and cast spells, or use a weapon and shield and still cast spells.  That's really not supposed to be allowed, it seems to me.I think the whole business of shifting wielded items around form hand to hand (or shifting grips) should be explicitly dealt with in the rules.The easier one makes it to cast spells and also wield a weapon or two, the closer one comes to marginilizing the non-spell using fighter.</blockquote>