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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7113402" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I agree that it's confuzzling.&nbsp; The section on Use Activated items seems to say that &quot;Use&quot; may mean &quot;Whenever desired&quot;.&nbsp; For some items &quot;use&quot; is clear.&nbsp; You swing the +1 sword, you wield the +2 Shield.&nbsp; &quot;Use&quot; is clear and obvious.But if there is no physical motion or obvious action needed to invoke a power then thee needs to be something else that fills that role, some other form of trigger.Consider the Carpet of Flying:&nbsp; Command word activated to get it flying.&nbsp; After that, however, navigation is a free action.&nbsp; Spoken instructions are free actions because speech itself is a free/&quot;immediate&quot; action.&nbsp; The section on &quot;Use activated&quot; also says quite clearly that some &quot;commands&quot; may simply be issued by thinking them.&nbsp; Taking these ideas together you could have a Pearl of Power that's use activated, where the &quot;Use&quot; is a mental command to recall a previously cast spell.&nbsp; Not even a command word, and certainly not a Standard Action.Let me ask a slightly off topic question:&nbsp; Read the text describing a sword with the fire, frost, acid or electrical add on, a +1 enhancement for an extra D6 of damage.It says that the blade lights up/cools down etc &quot;on command&quot;.&nbsp; Do you read that as &quot;command activated&quot;?&nbsp; As in, it takes a Standard Action to power up your magic weapon?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 7113402, member: 6669384"] I agree that it's confuzzling. The section on Use Activated items seems to say that "Use" may mean "Whenever desired". For some items "use" is clear. You swing the +1 sword, you wield the +2 Shield. "Use" is clear and obvious. But if there is no physical motion or obvious action needed to invoke a power then thee needs to be something else that fills that role, some other form of trigger. Consider the Carpet of Flying: Command word activated to get it flying. After that, however, navigation is a free action. Spoken instructions are free actions because speech itself is a free/"immediate" action. The section on "Use activated" also says quite clearly that some "commands" may simply be issued by thinking them. Taking these ideas together you could have a Pearl of Power that's use activated, where the "Use" is a mental command to recall a previously cast spell. Not even a command word, and certainly not a Standard Action. Let me ask a slightly off topic question: Read the text describing a sword with the fire, frost, acid or electrical add on, a +1 enhancement for an extra D6 of damage. It says that the blade lights up/cools down etc "on command". Do you read that as "command activated"? As in, it takes a Standard Action to power up your magic weapon? [/QUOTE]

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