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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9491539" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Reading it to cast a spell is using it.&nbsp; Just like reading a teleprompter is using it.And Fast Hands specifically lets you take the &quot;magic action&quot; as a bonus action.yes it is.&nbsp; Moreso than the post I replied to.&nbsp; Nothing in Fast Hands talks about &quot;activating&quot; a magic item at all and in defending that intepretation you are breaking the magic action into three distinct different application then saying only one of them applies to Fast Hands when Fast Hands itself does not say that.The word activate is actually in the definition of the magic action.&nbsp; If the creators were trying to explain this they would have done it inside Fast Hands and they didn't.JC meant what he was saying - you can use FH to activate a magic item that requires the magic action.&nbsp; That is ONE use of FH.&nbsp; I personally think&nbsp; &quot;reading a scroll and casting a spell&quot; is &quot;activating&quot; a magic item, but even if it is not it is still &quot;using&quot; a magic item and the latter is required for fast hands.Crawford did not make a statement of intent.&nbsp; He provided an example of how it is used. What Crawford said does NOT conflict with using FH to drop Caltrops and what Crawford said does NOT conflict with using FH to &quot;read a scroll and cast a spell&quot;&nbsp; even though he did not state either of these in his example.I think Crawford intends for FH to be used with scrolls that have a spell with an action casting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9491539, member: 7030563"] Reading it to cast a spell is using it. Just like reading a teleprompter is using it. And Fast Hands specifically lets you take the "magic action" as a bonus action. yes it is. Moreso than the post I replied to. Nothing in Fast Hands talks about "activating" a magic item at all and in defending that intepretation you are breaking the magic action into three distinct different application then saying only one of them applies to Fast Hands when Fast Hands itself does not say that. The word activate is actually in the definition of the magic action. If the creators were trying to explain this they would have done it inside Fast Hands and they didn't. JC meant what he was saying - you can use FH to activate a magic item that requires the magic action. That is ONE use of FH. I personally think [I]"reading a scroll and casting a spell" [/I] is "activating" a magic item, but even if it is not it is still "using" a magic item and the latter is required for fast hands. Crawford did not make a statement of intent. He provided an example of how it is used. What Crawford said does NOT conflict with using FH to drop Caltrops and what Crawford said does NOT conflict with using FH to [I]"read a scroll and cast a spell" [/I]even though he did not state either of these in his example. I think Crawford intends for FH to be used with scrolls that have a spell with an action casting. [/QUOTE]

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