If a wizard casts Spectral Hand and has a Wand of Protection from Evil in the other hand, can he use the Spectral Hand as the touch to cast the P.from.E spell on someone?
-- david
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It's a nice idea, but I would say no.
Spectral Hand says it can deliver spells that "you cast". Spells from a wand are triggered, not cast.
I think spell-completion items, like scrolls, might work though.
IF you can convince your DM that delivering that spell is a melee touch attack however you could have an aberrant sorcerer do it with their long limbs, since that class feature states it works on "melee touch attacks" and not "spells you cast".
Does that mean that, when a wand contains a touch spell, the recipient of the spell must be touched with the wand?
The wand or you I imagine.
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I understand that the spectral hand description says it can deliver a touch spell "you cast" and wands are triggered items, rather than spell completion items.
However, if the assumption is that using a wand to create the effect of a touch spell that can be delivered by touching the target with your own hand, wouldn't it be logical to assume that spectral hand would work, as well?
If you say that wands containing touch spells don't transfer that spell energy into the "caster", and only the wand can be used to touch the target of the effect, then it does make sense that spectral hand can't be used to deliver the effects of a spell from a wand.
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I always find that if you can convince the GM that it is a cool idea, no matter what the rules might say, they will often times bite anyway for the fun.
We had a wizard cast Spectral Hand once, and the GM heard Spectral Ham, and asked what kind of spell it was. Ever since then the wizard cast Spectral Ham and could do all kinds of wacky things.
It was hilarious for this Spectral Ham to go bounding across the battlefield, SQUEEEE OINK OINK SQUEEEE, deliver the touch spells and bound off.
lol
Lord that was more fun than wiping out the bad guys!
SQUEEE OINK OINK SQUEEEEEEE