New Posts For Thread: Hammerhttp://community.wizards.com/coco/go/thread/view/89269/29451757/HammerWhen you have hammer up, does it count as holding a touch spell? I'm split on it, since it has a specific duration as opposed to just being held until used, but it still a touch spell.Produce Flames is different, though, because it can also be thrown. In effect, it has two "ranges", in this sense.http://community.wizards.com/coco/go/thread/view/89269/29451757/Hammer?post_id=525412289#525412289Produce Flames is different, though, because it can also be thrown. In effect, it has two "ranges", in this sense.Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:15:41 -0500I failed my roll to not respond. >_>In any case, after I typed that, I went looking at other SRDs to see if any of them listed Hammer as anything other than a touch spell, and ended up using d20 as a reference myself after. It didn't list Hammer as nhttp://community.wizards.com/coco/go/thread/view/89269/29451757/Hammer?post_id=525409053#525409053I failed my roll to not respond. >_>In any case, after I typed that, I went looking at other SRDs to see if any of them listed Hammer as anything other than a touch spell, and ended up using d20 as a reference myself after. It didn't list Hammer as nTue, 23 Oct 2012 22:33:42 -0500As it happens we are, because I prefer to use d20srd.org, but that doesn't affect things.Note that I compared it to Produce Flame, which uses similar language (as it is also a touch attack) and has in the past been ruled to not follow the rules of hohttp://community.wizards.com/coco/go/thread/view/89269/29451757/Hammer?post_id=525408469#525408469As it happens we are, because I prefer to use d20srd.org, but that doesn't affect things.Note that I compared it to Produce Flame, which uses similar language (as it is also a touch attack) and has in the past been ruled to not follow the rules of hoTue, 23 Oct 2012 21:50:47 -0500Typical wizards, having a good thing and then throwing something random in there. Flame blade had a similiar probelm where we were trying to figure out what being wielded like a scimitar meant. Archaic flavour text from 1E confuses what shoulod behttp://community.wizards.com/coco/go/thread/view/89269/29451757/Hammer?post_id=525407283#525407283Typical wizards, having a good thing and then throwing something random in there. Flame blade had a similiar probelm where we were trying to figure out what being wielded like a scimitar meant. Archaic flavour text from 1E confuses what shoulod beTue, 23 Oct 2012 20:56:38 -0500Personally, I'm inclined to think something like that happened too. As such, I'm done arguing about it. I stand by my statement that, by the rules, if it's a touch ranged spell that has a target, you would need to hold the charge on it after the durahttp://community.wizards.com/coco/go/thread/view/89269/29451757/Hammer?post_id=525403073#525403073Personally, I'm inclined to think something like that happened too. As such, I'm done arguing about it. I stand by my statement that, by the rules, if it's a touch ranged spell that has a target, you would need to hold the charge on it after the duraTue, 23 Oct 2012 17:59:49 -0500