Free Action to draw a Wand


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Is there any combination of feats or items that allows the drawing of a wand as a free action? Quickdraw explicitly excludes them from the benefits of the feat. Say I have a Wand of Enlarge Person (which takes a full round to cast), is there any way that I can have this wand accessible but not drawn to begin a turn yet be able to use it for that turn?


There aren't very many things that are for a free action.
If I remember correctly, you do get a swift action to take during a full round.
Don't hold me to it, but I think if you just take QuickDraw, you'll be fine.


Ogadim wrote:
Is there any combination of feats or items that allows the drawing of a wand as a free action? Quickdraw explicitly excludes them from the benefits of the feat. Say I have a Wand of Enlarge Person (which takes a full round to cast), is there any way that I can have this wand accessible but not drawn to begin a turn yet be able to use it for that turn?

Yes.

Glove of Storing

Free action to draw.


♣♠Magic♦♥ wrote:

There aren't very many things that are for a free action.

If I remember correctly, you do get a swift action to take during a full round.
Don't hold me to it, but I think if you just take QuickDraw, you'll be fine.

Like he said, Quickdraw specifically rules against using this on wands.

"You can draw weapons faster than most.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.

Benefit: You can draw a weapon as a free action instead of as a move action. You can draw a hidden weapon (see the Sleight of Hand skill) as a move action.

A character who has selected this feat may throw weapons at his full normal rate of attacks (much like a character with a bow).

Alchemical items, potions, scrolls, and wands cannot be drawn quickly using this feat.

Normal: Without this feat, you may draw a weapon as a move action, or (if your base attack bonus is +1 or higher) as a free action as part of movement. Without this feat, you can draw a hidden weapon as a standard action."


Alarox wrote:
Ogadim wrote:
Is there any combination of feats or items that allows the drawing of a wand as a free action? Quickdraw explicitly excludes them from the benefits of the feat. Say I have a Wand of Enlarge Person (which takes a full round to cast), is there any way that I can have this wand accessible but not drawn to begin a turn yet be able to use it for that turn?

Yes.

Glove of Storing

Free action to draw.

Beautiful. Exactly the kind of thing I was looking to find. Now I just need to save up some cash.


Yes, If your playing Pathfinder Society, it's legal too.

Found in the Paizo Book Adventurer's Armory. Note that these are different from the ones in the Ultimate Campaign book. These are the ones you want.

Adventurer's Armory Page 9, Bottom Left Corner:

Wrist Sheath, Spring Loaded:
This item works like a standard wrist sheath, but releasing an item from it is a swift action. Preparing the sheath for this use requires cranking the sheath's tiny gears and springs into place.

Cost: 5 gold

I have 2 on my Magus with wand arcana. Wand of shield and wand of infernal healing, Ho!

Well to be honest, it's not a free action, but a swift action instead. Sorry I missed the mark about your request.

I usually don't like threads where a person asks for x and people tell him to "stop wanting x, do abc instead!" So I hope I didn't do that to you too bad.

Still, it's a swift action, you can pack 2(one per wrist), and it's 9995 gold cheaper than gloves of storing. Available to a lvl 1 PC. Cheers!


jfkg306 wrote:

Yes, If your playing Pathfinder Society, it's legal too.

Found in the Paizo Book Adventurer's Armory. Note that these are different from the ones in the Ultimate Campaign book. These are the ones you want.

Adventurer's Armory Page 9, Bottom Left Corner:

Wrist Sheath, Spring Loaded:
This item works like a standard wrist sheath, but releasing an item from it is a swift action. Preparing the sheath for this use requires cranking the sheath's tiny gears and springs into place.

Cost: 5 gold

I have 2 on my Magus with wand arcana. Wand of shield and wand of infernal healing, Ho!

Well to be honest, it's not a free action, but a swift action instead. Sorry I missed the mark about your request.

I usually don't like threads where a person asks for x and people tell him to "stop wanting x, do abc instead!" So I hope I didn't do that to you too bad.

Still, it's a swift action, you can pack 2(one per wrist), and it's 9995 gold cheaper than gloves of storing. Available to a lvl 1 PC. Cheers!

I will have to see if my GM has that book. Those would certainly be quite useful since my Bard doesn't use swift actions very frequently (with the exception of Arcane Strike when I want to rough something up). Might be that he's getting an early Christmas gift if he doesn't have it already.

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