I made a warlock character and I picked Magic Stone as one of my cantrips because I plan to pick pact of the chain for my pact boon and I want to be able to give my familiar some ranged attacks. I want to know if picking up the stones I use it on and giving them to my familiar counts as an action. Also, can I cast it through my familiar so I can have them pick up the stones themselves, since it has a range of touch?
I made a warlock character and I picked Magic Stone as one of my cantrips because I plan to pick pact of the chain for my pact boon and I want to be able to give my familiar some ranged attacks. I want to know if picking up the stones I use it on and giving them to my familiar counts as an action. Also, can I cast it through my familiar so I can have them pick up the stones themselves, since it has a range of touch?
If you aren't carrying a bag of rocks, it's a Use Item action to pick up stones - you get one for free on your go, and your familiar gets one on their go, so you can pick up 2 per round at no real cost. But if you just buy a belt pouch full of sling bullets, which are rocks, or buy a pouch and fill it during downtime, you don't need to worry about it: your cast bonus action can be on three rocks on top of your pouch, and then you can fire them from a sling as part of your attack, and your familiar can pick up a rock from the pouch using its free use item as I just mentioned, so you're not reliant on being in an area with rocks on the ground.
I made a warlock character and I picked Magic Stone as one of my cantrips because I plan to pick pact of the chain for my pact boon and I want to be able to give my familiar some ranged attacks. I want to know if picking up the stones I use it on and giving them to my familiar counts as an action. Also, can I cast it through my familiar so I can have them pick up the stones themselves, since it has a range of touch?
Forgot to answer your other question. Your familiar can indeed cast magic stone, but bear in mind when you cast the spell through it, you consume its reaction. You also consume its reaction when you forgo your attack to let it attack, and if you bonus action order it to attack via Investment of the Chain Master, you can't cast magic stone.
There's one more thing I forgot to ask. Are casting Magic Stones and making a ranged spell attack with the rocks you used it on part of the same bonus action, or do you cast Magic Stones with a bonus action and make a ranged spell attack with a normal action?
There's one more thing I forgot to ask. Are casting Magic Stones and making a ranged spell attack with the rocks you used it on part of the same bonus action, or do you cast Magic Stones with a bonus action and make a ranged spell attack with a normal action?
The attack is separate from the bonus action used to cast the spell.
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I made a warlock character and I picked Magic Stone as one of my cantrips because I plan to pick pact of the chain for my pact boon and I want to be able to give my familiar some ranged attacks. I want to know if picking up the stones I use it on and giving them to my familiar counts as an action. Also, can I cast it through my familiar so I can have them pick up the stones themselves, since it has a range of touch?
If you aren't carrying a bag of rocks, it's a Use Item action to pick up stones - you get one for free on your go, and your familiar gets one on their go, so you can pick up 2 per round at no real cost. But if you just buy a belt pouch full of sling bullets, which are rocks, or buy a pouch and fill it during downtime, you don't need to worry about it: your cast bonus action can be on three rocks on top of your pouch, and then you can fire them from a sling as part of your attack, and your familiar can pick up a rock from the pouch using its free use item as I just mentioned, so you're not reliant on being in an area with rocks on the ground.
Forgot to answer your other question. Your familiar can indeed cast magic stone, but bear in mind when you cast the spell through it, you consume its reaction. You also consume its reaction when you forgo your attack to let it attack, and if you bonus action order it to attack via Investment of the Chain Master, you can't cast magic stone.
There's one more thing I forgot to ask. Are casting Magic Stones and making a ranged spell attack with the rocks you used it on part of the same bonus action, or do you cast Magic Stones with a bonus action and make a ranged spell attack with a normal action?
The attack is separate from the bonus action used to cast the spell.