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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2934925" data-attributes="member: 2011">I would require a grappling concentration to have a 4 to 8 pound weapon dangling from a spell casting hand (for spells with a somatic component).I also allow a free action to switch a weapon to a hand with a light shield or buckler, then a standard action to cast a spell, then a free action to switch the weapon back.If you make it a move action to switch the weapon to the shield hand and another move action to switch it back, than it really does not make sense for Clerics, Druids, Rangers, Paladins, etc. to use sword and board. The game appears to be designed to allow these types of characters to use sword and board, but the move action to move the weapon to the other hand makes this extremely difficult to do.They either have to a) move the weapon to the shield hand (move action), cast a spell (standard action) and next turn switch the weapon back (move action), or b) drop weapon (free action), cast spell (standard action), and pick up weapon (move action which provokes an AoO) in order to both cast and fight in the same combat. The first not only prevents the character from doing an AoO between rounds one and two, but it also prevents movement in round two if the character wants to do a standard action in round two. The second means that these types of characters provoke two AoOs for casting a spell.Both of these choices are ludicrous. They really make it difficult for these both cast and fight type characters to cast and fight in the same combat.And, allowing switching the weapon from hand to hand as a free action is still limiting. A character cannot do it with a heavy shield, so they have to give up something in order to do something else. That's balance. Pros and Cons.It also gives these types of characters an incentive to use a buckler or light shield instead of a heavy shield (where b above is the only way to easily both cast and fight).</blockquote>

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