Action for summoning with Ring of Natural Attunement (drake)


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This question came up on the French PF forums, and now I'm doubting if I read things right. I posited that activating the summon nature's ally 4 would require a full-round action, just like any summoning spell.

PRD wrote:
Also, once per day on command the wearer can use this ring to summon a shadow drake, as if by the summon nature's ally IV spell.

And also:

PRD wrote:
Activating a magic item is a standard action unless the item description indicates otherwise. However, the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, regardless of the type of magic item, unless the item description specifically states otherwise.

Again, I read this to mean that activating the summoning power of the ring would be a full-round action. Am I wrong?


full-round action seems correct


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The key bit is:

PRD wrote:
the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, regardless of the type of magic item

The question is whether the activation action of the item is automatically increased to a full-round action as the spell, or if the spell's activation action is downgraded to a standard action as the device.


I'd agree with a full round. Spell casting time seems to be a 'take the worst' sort of rule


summoning is also a 1round action not a full round. realized this after my post but I was gone


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Wheldrake wrote:

The key bit is:

PRD wrote:
the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, regardless of the type of magic item
The question is whether the activation action of the item is automatically increased to a full-round action as the spell, or if the spell's activation action is downgraded to a standard action as the device.

The basic question remains unanswered. The action description appears vague, so I was kind of hoping someone would point me to more explicit language somewhere else.

Thanks to those who answered - I'm also convinced that using a magic item to cast a summoning spell or effect will default to a one-round casting time, which requires a full-round action concentrating on the casting. But I would've liked to return to the French PF boards with something definitive that I could quote, aside from the bit I quoted above which looks like it could work either way.

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