"A flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the Duration and harms neither you nor your Equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The spell ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you cast it again.
You can also Attack with the flame, although doing so ends the spell. When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell Attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage."
If I have one hand occupied with a shield and another hand occupied with an arcane focus. Can I cast produce flame into one of my occupied hands?
If I have Warcaster can I then use the flame as an opportunity attack while my hands are occupied?
I'm getting ready for a one shot battle royale and want to be able to have a free damage cantrip.
The spell itself states that the flame causes no harm to you or your equipment. I would be willing to say that, in the shield/focus situation, you could produce the flame in the same hand as the focus with no issue.
Warcaster allows you to use your reaction to cast a 1 Action spell in response to an Opportunity Attack, so yes you could use the flame. I'd even go so far as to say that, if you had Produce Flame cast a turn or more prior to gaining an OA, the attack is not the same as casting a spell
Primarily this spell needs a free hand because it has a Somatic component (without Material), so it can't be cast using your holy shield focus. Warcaster feat does take care of that though, and it can then be cast with either shield or weapon hand. The flame then hangs about somewhere on or around that hand until you throw it, but its exact location is not important.
By the same token you could cast the spell with an empty hand then draw a weapon and keep the flame as a light source in the same hand.
Primarily this spell needs a free hand because it has a Somatic component (without Material), so it can't be cast using your holy shield focus. Warcaster feat does take care of that though, and it can then be cast with either shield or weapon hand. The flame then hangs about somewhere on or around that hand until you throw it, but its exact location is not important.
This is correct, and the answer I would have given.
Warcaster allows you to use your reaction to cast a 1 Action spell in response to an Opportunity Attack, so yes you could use the flame. I'd even go so far as to say that, if you had Produce Flame cast a turn or more prior to gaining an OA, the attack is not the same as casting a spell
By RAW, you can't throw the flame as an AoO, but you can (with warcaster) cast the spell again (auto ending concentration) and throw it as part of that casting. There is some niche interactions with light that take place due to this. A DM can of course just allow it to be thrown, and I would too, just for simplicity.
Ok. That is true. Also not important to the point since casting the spell again still automatically ends it. Also, also 9 months too late, and you aren't supposed to comment in thread that haven't been posted in for over 6 months (how do people even find these old threads? I can't find a thread after a week because it gets buried all the new ones).
"A flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the Duration and harms neither you nor your Equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The spell ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you cast it again.
You can also Attack with the flame, although doing so ends the spell. When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell Attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage."
If I have one hand occupied with a shield and another hand occupied with an arcane focus. Can I cast produce flame into one of my occupied hands?
If I have Warcaster can I then use the flame as an opportunity attack while my hands are occupied?
I'm getting ready for a one shot battle royale and want to be able to have a free damage cantrip.
The spell itself states that the flame causes no harm to you or your equipment. I would be willing to say that, in the shield/focus situation, you could produce the flame in the same hand as the focus with no issue.
Warcaster allows you to use your reaction to cast a 1 Action spell in response to an Opportunity Attack, so yes you could use the flame. I'd even go so far as to say that, if you had Produce Flame cast a turn or more prior to gaining an OA, the attack is not the same as casting a spell
For gameplay purposes, I'd say it appears on the end of your focus. It doesn't really matter but looks cooler.
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Primarily this spell needs a free hand because it has a Somatic component (without Material), so it can't be cast using your holy shield focus. Warcaster feat does take care of that though, and it can then be cast with either shield or weapon hand. The flame then hangs about somewhere on or around that hand until you throw it, but its exact location is not important.
By the same token you could cast the spell with an empty hand then draw a weapon and keep the flame as a light source in the same hand.
This is correct, and the answer I would have given.
By RAW, you can't throw the flame as an AoO, but you can (with warcaster) cast the spell again (auto ending concentration) and throw it as part of that casting. There is some niche interactions with light that take place due to this. A DM can of course just allow it to be thrown, and I would too, just for simplicity.
It’s not concentration
Ok. That is true. Also not important to the point since casting the spell again still automatically ends it. Also, also 9 months too late, and you aren't supposed to comment in thread that haven't been posted in for over 6 months (how do people even find these old threads? I can't find a thread after a week because it gets buried all the new ones).
There’s a search function but it only appears at the top of the thread list page if you rotate your phone to landscape position or are on a computer