The idea is this: When I cast Wall of Force sphere around enemy I want the gem with Contingency to activate Private Sanctum on self as center.
Reason is: Private Sanctum has:
Nothing can teleport into or out of the warded area.
Planar travel is blocked within the warded area
and Wall of Force : You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a sphere with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot-by-10-foot panels
and Nothing can physically pass through the wall.
so i was thinking cut of the air or trap them or an ally adds Sickening Radiance to the mix
The first line of Contingency states the following:
Choose a spell of or lower that you can cast, that has a Casting Time of 1 action, and that can target you.
When you are activating a Spell Gem, you are using the "Use An Object" action.
Even if you aren't using a Spell Gem, it can't cast it because Private Sanctum has no targets and takes longer than an action. It just casts into an open area.
i was going with this: A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as an action if you know the spell or if the spell is on your class’s spell list. Doing so doesn’t require any components and doesn’t require attunement. The spell then disappears from the gem.
i was going with this: A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as an action if you know the spell or if the spell is on your class’s spell list. Doing so doesn’t require any components and doesn’t require attunement. The spell then disappears from the gem.
Right, so you could load the contingency spell into the Gem per the description of the Spell Gem (Topaz):
You can imbue the gem with a spell if you're attuned to it and it's empty. To do so, you cast the spell while holding the gem. The spell is stored in the gem instead of having any effect. Casting the spell must require either 1 action or 1 minute or longer, and the spell's level must be no higher than the gem's maximum. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal.
So Contingency is loaded. Because of the attributes of the contingency spell, "Choose a spell of 5th level or lower that you can cast, that has a casting time of 1 action, and that can target you", and Private Sanctum being 10 Minutes cast and No Targets, it would not work.
The idea is this: When I cast Wall of Force sphere around enemy I want the gem with Contingency to activate Private Sanctum on self as center.
Reason is: Private Sanctum has:
and Wall of Force : You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a sphere with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot-by-10-foot panels
and Nothing can physically pass through the wall.
so i was thinking cut of the air or trap them or an ally adds Sickening Radiance to the mix
Private Sanctum
No.
The first line of Contingency states the following:
Choose a spell of or lower that you can cast, that has a Casting Time of 1 action, and that can target you.
When you are activating a Spell Gem, you are using the "Use An Object" action.
Even if you aren't using a Spell Gem, it can't cast it because Private Sanctum has no targets and takes longer than an action. It just casts into an open area.
i was going with this: A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as an action if you know the spell or if the spell is on your class’s spell list. Doing so doesn’t require any components and doesn’t require attunement. The spell then disappears from the gem.
Right, so you could load the contingency spell into the Gem per the description of the Spell Gem (Topaz):
You can imbue the gem with a spell if you're attuned to it and it's empty. To do so, you cast the spell while holding the gem. The spell is stored in the gem instead of having any effect. Casting the spell must require either 1 action or 1 minute or longer, and the spell's level must be no higher than the gem's maximum. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal.
So Contingency is loaded. Because of the attributes of the contingency spell, "Choose a spell of 5th level or lower that you can cast, that has a casting time of 1 action, and that can target you", and Private Sanctum being 10 Minutes cast and No Targets, it would not work.
Thank you