I was looking at the Thief's "Use Magic Device" feature in relation to a separate thread and found it to be very similar to Magic Item Savant, with a single exception: the artificer ignores "all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item." The Thief does not ignore "spell requirements."
My initial interpretation of this is that, unlike the Thief, an artificer can use spell scrolls, which require that the spell be on the user's class's spell list. That was the only thing that came to my mind when considering what might be meant by "spell requirement."
Are there any other items that have some kind of "spell requirement" in their activation?
There is also spell gem which are practically identical to scrolls in usage requirements.
I also noticed that artificer's magic item savant mentioned attunement, while thief's use magic device did not. Does this mean thieves can't attune wand of fireballs or similar?
I think it's arguable that "on your class’s spell list" is one example of a "class requirement" rather than being something else entirely. A class's spell list is a feature of that class, nested within their "Spellcasting" feature, and I think that requiring a class's feature is a class requirement. For monsters at least, this is made explicit in Basic Rules Chapter 14: "If the prerequisite is a class, a creature must be a member of that class to attune to the item. If the class is a spellcasting class, a monster qualifies if it has spell slots and uses that class's spelllist."... but that could just be because monsters can't have classes I suppose.I could certainly see the argument that "class requirement" is limited to things like "requires attunement by a bard", but the bounds of the undefined term "class requirement" are hazy enough that I wouldn't say that's 100% the only possible reading.
I was about to say that attuning falls within the scope of using a magic item, but they are two separate sections within Chapter 14, so that sort of cuts against that as wel..
I was looking at the Thief's "Use Magic Device" feature in relation to a separate thread and found it to be very similar to Magic Item Savant, with a single exception: the artificer ignores "all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item." The Thief does not ignore "spell requirements."
My initial interpretation of this is that, unlike the Thief, an artificer can use spell scrolls, which require that the spell be on the user's class's spell list. That was the only thing that came to my mind when considering what might be meant by "spell requirement."
Are there any other items that have some kind of "spell requirement" in their activation?
Hmm... That sounds right.
There is also spell gem which are practically identical to scrolls in usage requirements.
I also noticed that artificer's magic item savant mentioned attunement, while thief's use magic device did not. Does this mean thieves can't attune wand of fireballs or similar?
I think it's arguable that "on your class’s spell list" is one example of a "class requirement" rather than being something else entirely. A class's spell list is a feature of that class, nested within their "Spellcasting" feature, and I think that requiring a class's feature is a class requirement. For monsters at least, this is made explicit in Basic Rules Chapter 14: "If the prerequisite is a class, a creature must be a member of that class to attune to the item. If the class is a spellcasting class, a monster qualifies if it has spell slots and uses that class's spell list."... but that could just be because monsters can't have classes I suppose. I could certainly see the argument that "class requirement" is limited to things like "requires attunement by a bard", but the bounds of the undefined term "class requirement" are hazy enough that I wouldn't say that's 100% the only possible reading.
I was about to say that attuning falls within the scope of using a magic item, but they are two separate sections within Chapter 14, so that sort of cuts against that as wel..
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