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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6870434" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>Faerie fire because 1) faeries don't have to wave their hands about to make magic happen, so the spell named after them (possibly originally learned from them) doesn't require it either, and 2) it didn't have a somatic component in AD&D (though I should mention that at least during 2nd edition spell components were an optional rule rather than the default), 3) whoever in-setting originated the spell did so with the intent that it function even if the caster's hands were bound.</p><p></p><p>Darkness because 1) there is no more movement of the hands involved in the casting than to retrieve the material components (or the focus that replaces them) and hold them in hand while saying the magic words. (Actually, now that you've made me think of it, it seems like any spell that has both somatic and material components is being redundant because the material component needing to be manipulated is indication that movement of the hand is necessary - so only spells that require movement of the hand but don't involve a material component actually need the somatic tag.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6870434, member: 6701872"] Faerie fire because 1) faeries don't have to wave their hands about to make magic happen, so the spell named after them (possibly originally learned from them) doesn't require it either, and 2) it didn't have a somatic component in AD&D (though I should mention that at least during 2nd edition spell components were an optional rule rather than the default), 3) whoever in-setting originated the spell did so with the intent that it function even if the caster's hands were bound. Darkness because 1) there is no more movement of the hands involved in the casting than to retrieve the material components (or the focus that replaces them) and hold them in hand while saying the magic words. (Actually, now that you've made me think of it, it seems like any spell that has both somatic and material components is being redundant because the material component needing to be manipulated is indication that movement of the hand is necessary - so only spells that require movement of the hand but don't involve a material component actually need the somatic tag.) [/QUOTE]
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