TarrentheShaded |
The level 10 bard feat reads, "If your next action is to cast a composition spell, you can use a different kind of performance than usual for the composition to change any of its somatic components to verbal components or vice versa. As usual for composition spells, this changes whether the composition is auditory or visual."
I'm wondering whether or not this feat should require using a free action. Quickened Casting is worded similarly and is a free action:
"If your next action is to cast a cantrip or a spell that is at least 2 levels lower than the highest level spell you can cast, reduce the number of actions to cast it by 1 (minimum 1 action)."
The main part of the wording I'm focusing on is "If your next action is..." Because of this wording, Unusual Composition seems to imply that the feat itself requires using a certain type of action, similar to Quickened Casting. Most metamagic feats I've looked at seem to use some type of action.
TarrentheShaded |
Quickened Casting is a free action because it's Quickened Casting. Unusual Composition is a 1-action activity, like many of the other metamagic and metamusic (my term, not an official game term) feats Bards have.
Oh it is 1 action? I was looking at the feat on Archives of Nethys and they don't have the 1 action symbol with it. Maybe they just forgot to include the symbol? I don't currently have my physical book with me to confirm.
Fuzzy-Wuzzy |
Baarogue wrote:Quickened Casting is a free action because it's Quickened Casting. Unusual Composition is a 1-action activity, like many of the other metamagic and metamusic (my term, not an official game term) feats Bards have.Oh it is 1 action? I was looking at the feat on Archives of Nethys and they don't have the 1 action symbol with it. Maybe they just forgot to include the symbol? I don't currently have my physical book with me to confirm.
I can confirm it's in the PDF with the 1-action symbol. So yeah, AoN missed it.