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<blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9694467" data-attributes="member: 6894926"><p>Ugh, this is such a PITA thing when stuff like Rings of Spell Storing or the Reserve Ioun Stone come up. It's also potentially problematic if you use RAW attunement wands that recharge, rather than changing wands to non-attunement, limited charges like in Ye Olde Dayes. It's usually "my familiar casts Haste/Bless from the ring and then goes into my backpack, or I dismiss them away to safety." My solution with that, going forward, is to just skip spell-storing items because they're so boring in 5e due to optimization (never has anyone at my 5e tables stored a fireball or even a Dispel Magic, it's always haste, bless, Shield, etc).</p><p></p><p>More on-topic, assuming RAW recharging items as it is now, I allow familiars etc. to use such items if it seems feasible that they can grasp and talk. Buuut I really don't love the result of this, because the results are, again, boringly optimization-heavy... at my tables, at least. I'd probably be more of a tight-arse with such things in the future. However, I tend to give out wands with limited charges that aren't attunement- because PCs inevitably cap out on attunement slots and the wands never get used again after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Distracted DM, post: 9694467, member: 6894926"] Ugh, this is such a PITA thing when stuff like Rings of Spell Storing or the Reserve Ioun Stone come up. It's also potentially problematic if you use RAW attunement wands that recharge, rather than changing wands to non-attunement, limited charges like in Ye Olde Dayes. It's usually "my familiar casts Haste/Bless from the ring and then goes into my backpack, or I dismiss them away to safety." My solution with that, going forward, is to just skip spell-storing items because they're so boring in 5e due to optimization (never has anyone at my 5e tables stored a fireball or even a Dispel Magic, it's always haste, bless, Shield, etc). More on-topic, assuming RAW recharging items as it is now, I allow familiars etc. to use such items if it seems feasible that they can grasp and talk. Buuut I really don't love the result of this, because the results are, again, boringly optimization-heavy... at my tables, at least. I'd probably be more of a tight-arse with such things in the future. However, I tend to give out wands with limited charges that aren't attunement- because PCs inevitably cap out on attunement slots and the wands never get used again after that. [/QUOTE]
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