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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2940786" data-attributes="member: 2011">What you state here is a logical fallacy.Getting out spell components while casting a spell is a free action.Getting out spell components when not casting a spell is not a free action. It is a Retrieve a Stored Item move action and cannot be done while mounting a horse.Pulling out an arrow while firing arrows is a free action.Pulling out an arrow when not firing arrows is not a free action. It is a Retrieve a Stored Item move action and cannot be done while mounting a horse.Obviously, the switch a weapon action cannot be done during another action that requires the use of the hands. It can only be done (regardless of whether it is a free action or a move action) before or after the hands are no longer doing the action that required their use.I can do it running down the street, I cannot do it climbing a tree. Course, I would have a real hard time climbing the tree with the weapon in the first hand.This too is a logical fallacy. The tree climbing example is one where a minimum of one hand is need at all times to climb, so obviously you cannot do a free action that requires both hands.This is not a free action that can be done when the hands are being used for other things. It can only be used when the hands are available. Just like you cannot speak while spell casting with a verbal component, regardless of the fact that speaking is a free action.Your logic here is "Since you cannot use this free action at all times, it is not a free action." That's bad logic. You cannot use the free action of speaking at all times, but it is still a free action when you can use it.And, when you can use the action does not change the fact that it takes an extremely short period of time to do if both hands are available.</blockquote>

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