noodohs |
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I think I get the idea as to why they were made into actions, it just rubs me the wrong way in terms of the execution. I don't have anything against the idea that one spell might take up 2 actions or 3 actions or 1 reaction or whatever, but...
1. At a basic level, the idea that the somatic part is 1 action and the verbal part is another action doesn't make any logical sense. It is not hard to talk and move my hands at the same time (though I can understand the material part being a separate action as I have to get something from my bag).
2. It's not consistently applied to spells anyway since certain spells can change the action cost of each component. By this I mean that there is no point assigning an action cost to a component if in practice it is variable anyway.
Since I have to look at the spell to see the real action cost anyway, I propose to just assign an action cost to each spell and do away with the needless complication of assigning action costs (that aren't honored in all cases anyway) to the components of the spell. Makes more sense in terms of the "realism" and it's just simpler.