Wand of Wraithstrike Market Crashes

[Shadeus]

Hmm. Suffers from the same poor wording that the Miniatures Handbook does. What about spells with a 1 round casting time? It would've been much better if they'd not provided a blanket statement but rather a specific statement regarding swift spells.

Pinotage

Exactly. A wand of identify that takes only a standard action will become a staple for adventurers. An expensive staple, but worth it to know what a potentially useful magic item does immediately.

 

[Mistwell]

Scrolls should take *more* time, if anything, surely not less than wands.

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Thanee

Surely you are not saying that pulling out a wand and saying a word should take less time than pulling out a scroll, unravelling it, and reading the whole thing....

 

[Blaque]

I thought the wording said standard action, or whatever the spell itself is, whichever is longer, somewhere abouts?

Since summoning spells, as far as I know, still take full round with magical equipment and all that, why not identify its full time?

Stuff.

 

[Jarrod]

Whatever happened to "the minimum time required to activate a widget is the original casting time or 1 standard action, whichever is longer"?

Then insert wand, scroll, power button, etc. for "widget".

 

[KarinsDad]

Surely you are not saying that pulling out a wand and saying a word should take less time than pulling out a scroll, unravelling it, and reading the whole thing....

You have to point the wand, remember?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Surely you are not saying that pulling out a wand and saying a word should take less time than pulling out a scroll, unravelling it, and reading the whole thing....

Yeah, but "the whole thing" for a swift / free action spell might just be a single syllable.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Suffers from the same poor wording that the Miniatures Handbook does. What about spells with a 1 round casting time?

...and...

A wand of identify that takes only a standard action will become a staple for adventurers. An expensive staple, but worth it to know what a potentially useful magic item does immediately.

That's already covered in the SRD. Spells that take more than a standard action to cast normally only take a standard action for spell completion/trigger items. (Yes, it's true. We had to stop and look it up for a game recently.)

Miniatures & Compendium are just basically adding that spells taking less than a standard action also take a full standard action when used from an item.

Scrolls of Identify would be more practical than a wand - don't have to pay for a full 50 charges (with a 100gp component for each charge.)

 

[RigaMortus2]

How come nobody mentioned that this "rule" isn't official because it isn't found in the RAW/Core/errata/FAQ/RotG/Sage yet?

 

[Mistwell]

How come nobody mentioned that this "rule" isn't official because it isn't found in the RAW/Core/errata/FAQ/RotG/Sage yet?

This "rule" isn't official because it isn't found in the RAW/Core/errata/FAQ/RotG/Sage.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

How come nobody mentioned that this "rule" isn't official because it isn't found in the RAW/Core/errata/FAQ/RotG/Sage yet?

1. Official: Absolutely. Appears in a WotC publication.
2. RAW: Absolutely. It's written down outside of someone's house rules.
3. Core: Nope. Not in the MM, PHB, or DMG.

The differences are important, sometimes.