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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6802404" data-attributes="member: 6799649">My entire argument about verbal components is not based on any 'assumption' that all components must be completed before the effects occur, but is based on the RAW:-Imagine that you start to cast a spell with VS components. What this means, RAW, is that you begin chanting the 'particular combination of sounds', with 'specific pitch and resonance', and also use at least one hand to 'perform these gestures'.This doesn't take zero time in the world; you begin chanting and gesturing, go through the specific words and actions for that spell, and then complete them.Imagine that you are half-way through this process when readied spells that cause you to be within a bubble of magical silence and that paralyse you cause you to fail to complete either the verbal or somatic component. Does the spell effect begin?RAW, no, it absolutely cannot begin. You have failed to provide the particular combination of sounds, because that particular combination would be a different combination if there were some words missing. You have failed to provide the somatic component, because you haven't performed the required set of gestures.If some of a spell's effect were to appear before the casting was complete, then some of the effect would occur even though you never provided the required verbal and somatic components! This is not legal by the RAW.The casting process must be complete before the spell effect begins. This is not a mere assumption, but the consequence of the Rules As Written.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6802404, member: 6799649"] My entire argument about verbal components is [i]not[/i] based on any 'assumption' that all components must be completed before the effects occur, but is based on the RAW:- Imagine that you start to cast a spell with VS components. What this means, RAW, is that you begin chanting the 'particular combination of sounds', with 'specific pitch and resonance', and also use at least one hand to 'perform these gestures'. This doesn't take zero time in the world; you begin chanting and gesturing, go through the specific words and actions for that spell, and then complete them. Imagine that you are half-way through this process when readied spells that cause you to be within a bubble of magical silence and that paralyse you cause you to fail to complete either the verbal or somatic component. Does the spell effect begin? RAW, no, it absolutely cannot begin. You have failed to provide the particular combination of sounds, because that particular combination would be a different combination if there were some words missing. You have failed to provide the somatic component, because you haven't performed the required set of gestures. If [i]some[/i] of a spell's effect were to appear before the casting was complete, then some of the effect would occur [i]even though you never provided the required verbal and somatic components![/i] This is not legal by the RAW. The casting process must be complete before the spell effect begins. This is not a mere assumption, but the consequence of the Rules As Written. [/QUOTE]

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