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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7309011" data-attributes="member: 1465">Anyway [MENTION=284]Caliban[/MENTION] I am sorry if I made you mad. This is why I hate the RAW, it always only causes trouble. But unfortunately the whole thread started off as a request to handle it within the RAW, and so I went along with it.But if you want to know the truth, I don't give a damn about the rules about spellcasting focus. I believe they could be meant to provide a balancing factor in the &quot;hands economy&quot; (stupid term I just made up) i.e. to require to occupy one of your hands if you want to cast spells, just like a sword &amp; board or 2WF character has 2 hands occupied, while a 1WF character has a free hand in case it matters. But there are just too many excuses that allows bypassing this (between passing items between hands, drop/pick up an item using the &quot;object interaction rule&quot;, or the infamous holy symbol semi-flavor text), that it makes it quite pointless IMHO to bother enforcing the details. And just to tell how much I despise and defile the RAW, I just gave our Druid a Chain Shirt, and called it &quot;RAW-compliant&quot; because the PHB says &quot;druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal&quot;, and &quot;will&quot; is in the future tense... so eventually they will not wear it but now they do. As soon as the future arrives, it's the present and the restriction is invalid <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7309011, member: 1465"] Anyway [MENTION=284]Caliban[/MENTION] I am sorry if I made you mad. This is why I hate the RAW, it always only causes trouble. But unfortunately the whole thread started off as a request to handle it within the RAW, and so I went along with it. But if you want to know the truth, I don't give a damn about the rules about spellcasting focus. I believe they [I]could[/I] be meant to provide a balancing factor in the "hands economy" (stupid term I just made up) i.e. to require to occupy one of your hands if you want to cast spells, just like a sword & board or 2WF character has 2 hands occupied, while a 1WF character has a free hand in case it matters. But there are just too many excuses that allows bypassing this (between passing items between hands, drop/pick up an item using the "object interaction rule", or the infamous holy symbol semi-flavor text), that it makes it quite pointless IMHO to bother enforcing the details. And just to tell how much I despise and defile the RAW, I just gave our Druid a Chain Shirt, and called it "RAW-compliant" because the PHB says "druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal", and "will" is in the future tense... so [I]eventually[/I] they will not wear it but [I]now[/I] they do. As soon as the future arrives, it's the present and the restriction is invalid :) [/QUOTE]

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