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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7774129" data-attributes="member: 23751">Except that we know that the Cast a Spell Action is not instantaneous.  It can't be and still have spells cast as bonus actions which the game goes out of its way to describe as "exceptionally swift."  You can't get any swifter than instant.  The Cast a Spell Action is actually the strongest proof of action duration not being instant.  It talks about the length of casting times and says that some spells take minutes or hours and therefore casting a spell is not necessarily an action.  However, it goes on to point out that most spells have a casting time of 1 action.  Those spells are by rule, longer than spells with a casting time of a bonus action.  We also know that as part of a 1 action spell, which by definition takes 1 action LONG to cast, you have to have time to pull out components, wave your hands around in a very specific manner, and speak the words of the spell.  That cannot happen in an instantaneous manner.So now we have two actions Attack and Cast a Spell that are both explicitly not instant and in fact have durations. We also have the movement actions that imply that the movement granted is a part of the action, and therefore that the actions have duration.  It's counter intuitive to think that actions are instant, and the effects are actions.</blockquote>