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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9756528" data-attributes="member: 6779196">You didn’t finish reading the text of the Magic Action. It goes on to say what happens in the case of the spell having a casting time of more than one action… Granted, if the casting time is 1 Reaction, that is not done with the Magic Action. That’s a special case, where the spell itself specifies the conditions for its use.Well, no. The text of the Ready Action specifies what happens: you declare what action you will take later as a Reaction, and what triggering event will allow you to do so. In the specific case of casting a spell, you must also cast the spell immediately - as normal, so you need the necessary components and to expend the required resources, and then later release the spell with your Reaction. In my reading, in light of the previous text about specifying the Action you’ll take, this Reaction constitutes a use of the Magic Action, but you could argue that the text about how to Ready a spell overrides the preceding text about declaring an Action, since it is more specific.Yes. What else could it even mean?I don’t understand how this is different. Unless the person casting the spell normally casts spells some way other than the spellcasting rules, but that would be a case of specific beating general, so in that case you would cast the spell “as normal” according to those rules.No, it doesn’t turn the Magic Action into a Reaction, it allows you to use your Reaction to release the spell, and there’s some ambiguity as to whether doing so constitutes using the Magic Action, but I’d personally rule that it does.What’s murky about that? That sounds very precise and explicit to me. You just do exactly what that says.Right, so in this case, casting the spell “as normal” would mean at the spell’s lowest possible spell and caster level, without requiring components or a spell slot (but would probably require spending charges from the staff - the staff itself would specify).Yep, that’s what “casting a spell as normal” looks like for a wand of magic missile.This tweet is from 2016, when the Cast a Spell action and the Use Item action were different actions with different rules for use. It makes sense in that context, but it’s irrelevant to the rules we’re currently discussing, which were released in 2024 and in which neither of those actions exist; casting a spell yourself and using a magic item to do it are both now covered by the same Action, the Magic action.Come to think of it, the weirdness of this particular ruling might be part of why they decided to roll casting a spell yourself and casting a spell from a magic item into the same action in the 2024 rules, and why they made sure to name that action something suitably general, instead of “Cast” or something like that.Holding onto a spell cast with the Ready Action requires concentration. A spell cast from a magic item (be it via the Magic Action or the Ready Action) does not require concentration to maintain its effects, because that’s how the rules for casting spells from magic items work.So, for example, if you used the Ready Action to cast Hold Monster from a Staff of Power on a goblin as soon as it starts to act hostile towards you, you would have to expend 1 charge from the staff and concentrate until the goblin started acting hostile towards you. If it does so before the start of your next turn, and if you have not lost concentration before that point, then at that time you would be able to use your Reaction to release the spell (debatably constituting a use of the Magic Action for the purposes of any effects that may care about that), causing it to take effect. In that case, since this instance of Hold Person was cast from a staff, its duration would last for a full minute without you needing to concentrate on it.</blockquote>

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