Recent content by Maxperson

In my office cabinet I have 3 boxes of monster cards, 1 box of magic item cards, one tarokka deck of cards, and one box of spell cards. They may not be skill cards, but any given spell or monster isn't much more complex than a skill. Some folks really like card representations for things.

Well, yeah. Because it was the Cast a Spell action. 5.5e just added magic items to it and so they had to rename it. The world normal had the exact same function in 5e as 5.5e. Cast a Spell action and a limit on spells per round. They changed a minor amount in the "update" to 5.5e, but the...

No. As I said above, nobody was going to think you didn't need to see targets, use the proper distances, etc. without the word normal in there. That it was included means that it refers to the action being taken, not the Ready Action. If it were only the Ready Action, they wouldn't have...

I don't agree. If they had left the "Cast as normal" out of the action, everyone would still have used targets, components, etc. Nobody was going to look at that action and think, "It doesn't say cast as normal, so I can ignore all the requirements of the spell!"

It's also a stretch to think "normal" = Ready Action, because if it did the phrase would never have been used.

No. I was making a point. Making a point is not bad faith. ;)

According to online surveys over the years I belong in house Slytherin, Ravenclaw, AND Gryffindor. :D

I think the bar for being good is a bit higher than not being a mass murderer. :p

Many/most(I can't actually count them) fall into the CG category. I have a strong belief in individual rights and a weak centralized government. It's a reflection of my behavior and beliefs. Not even a little. Every few years something gets me to think about it, like this thread, but in my...

I disagree. My suggestion is no different than trying to work around the Magic Action RAI. I get that you don't think that's the intent, but they tried really, really hard to keep fighters from casting two spells in a round. Also, even if you view what I just suggested as bad faith, a lot of...

People say that Gandalf isn't a wizard.

I just stated one. When I see an enemy. That is a perceivable circumstance, so the spell goes off instantly when my turn is "over" and has the same exact effect as if I had cast it on my turn with the Magic Action. No risk of spell loss. No concentration being used. I can pick a trigger that...

Why not instead of not concentrating, just release it on your turn? If you can release it later, you can release it then. Someone can take the Ready Action to cast the spell, release it immediately, and completely circumvent the Magic Action limitation. Or pick, "See an enemy" as the trigger...

And a ton of other rules.

A normal fighter also spends his action and reaction, and for a single weapon attack that can miss. The only difference between that fighter and the one using the magic action to fireball or wall of fire someone is concentration. I don't think taking up concentration for 1 round is anywhere...