There is no evidence that conditions such as restrained and grappled affect spellcasting, but there are some rules that “prove” that these conditions should affect spellcasting. One of these rules is Armor Proficiency, which requires taking the Magic action on each of your turns when casting a spell with a casting time of 1 minute or more.
Spells require audible verbal components and dramatic yet intricate somatic components. Magic is too finicky, and some spells can be cast without their verbal component, allowing the caster to still use magic even while gagged or under the effects of a silence spell.
Both wizards and priests use the same rules for casting spells, but they must first have the spell memorized. If the spell is not memorized, it cannot be cast. Mage is grappled and restrained by a constrictor, and the rules say attacks are at disadvantage. However, Mage wants to cast a spell with somatic components that is not an attack.
Some spells can be cast without their verbal component, allowing the caster to still use magic even while bound by restraints. D and D’s Weave of Somatic Spellcasting allows characters to cast spells while tied up, restrained, gagged, or within the radius of a silence spell.
Almost every Dungeons and Dragons spell requires the caster to be able to move their hands, but some can be cast while tied up. The restrained condition doesn’t prohibit any actions, except movement over distance. Wizard subschools also have “spell-like” magical effects that can be used even when bound or gagged.
In conclusion, spellcasting in Dungeons and Dragons is designed to support heroic fantasy tropes, and spellcasting being tied, gagged, naked, or handcuffed goes against these tropes.
📹 When Movie Bloopers Were Too Good To Cut!
Here are some of the movie bloopers that made the cut Thanks, Alex for the voiceover.
📹 How to Cast Spells in D&D 5E!
In this short video we take a look at some of the rules and explanations for casting spells in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition!
In the French Connection, during a chase scene, Gene Hackman’s car is T-boned by another car. That was not supposed to happen. They filmed the scene early on a Sunday morning in New York and blocked off the streets where the chase was to occur. One driver, not connected to the movie, somehow got through the barricades and creamed Hackman’s car while they were filming. The director, William Friedkin, kept it in the final cut.
Pro tip: when you put two cameras on a scene, with one perfectly angled up to the time clock on the wall, you know he’s going to punch it because you planned for that. With that setup, there’s a literal zero percent chance that he decided to punch it out of the blue, after those cameras started rolling. If it wasn’t already in the script then what almost certainly happened is that he had the idea, he said to the director, “How about I punch this thing right off the wall”, and the director thought it was a great idea.
Not really a blooper but in the movie Boyz n the Hood in the scene where Doughboy confronted Ferris and his gang, Ferris shoots his gun in the air to scare everyone, all the actors and extras’s reaction was actual genuine because John Singleton didn’t tell anyone the signal for when the shooting was going to happen because he wanted it to look realistic And A actual real blooper scene from The Hateful Eight where Kurt Russell unknowingly smashes an authentic, antique 145-year-old six-string guitar, on loan for filming use from the Martin Guitar Museum. This scene was meant to be cut, a prop put in place, and then for the smashing to occur. For some reason that was probably not communicated. You can see Jennifer Jason Leigh genuinely react in shock.
I never knew that STAR TREK IV detail before, and that woman got crazy lucky. Typically, the quickest way to get yourself fired as an extra is to improv an actual line, and rightly so. Because for one thing, all it takes is a single line in a proper studio production for you to get into the Screen Actors Guild, and of course the pay is different.
In the Revenant, Tom Hardy also visibly hits the camera man during one the rope shots when he throws the bundle of furs onto a mule. You won’t notice it unless your used to seeing the warp effect in premiere pro and clock the same warping around the corners and edges they used to mask the back and forth motion caused by the strike. I’m surprised no one ever talks about this.
I was an extra in a movie (the devil’s violinist) and got an unscripted line in. I was supposed to be handed a pen by an actor, but in one take he overlooked me, so I asked “may I have a pen”, and that was the scene that made it into the movie. Not very exciting or original, but it got me a close-up!
Fun fact: Leo didn’t kick a real horse. It was actually a prop, made partly from the wood in the door at the end of Titanic. Leo was so tired of being asked about the door (despite making at least 10 legendary movies since then) that he ended that phase of his life by ‘kicking a dead horse.’ Nah. Just playing. He just booted it couple of teeth out of a real horse.
I’m not some big expert on this stuff and don’t know too much about making of these movies, but understand, when it’s said it’s not scripted, it doesn’t mean that it’s improvised by the actor on the spot. It’s thought out before the take. For example the punching in the Joker, notice the different camera prepared for the shot of the machine. The Birdcage with Robin Williams is on the spot for example. Or the famous: “I’m walkin heeere!! I’m walkin heere!”
As someone who grew up in los angeles and had many friends who were actors or in the industry in other ways, i believe at least 1% of these stories. Actors like to tell stories that make themselves seem interesting. They also love to take credit for things. Its litterally their job to lie convincingly.
During the end credits of Star Trek IV there is a montage of clips from throughout the movie shown. However if you look closely, there’s a clip of James Doohan (Scotty) trying to climb out the ship but slips on the ladder and falls into the water. This footage isn’t in the movie itself but was rather cheekily hidden in the end credit footage montage 😂
Three others missed here The Exorcist: Linda Blair’s famous projectile peas soup vomit was supposed to hit Jason Miller in the chest. Instead, it hit him right in the face and his angered reaction was genuine. The Hateful Eight: Kurt Russel was supposed to smash a prop replica of the 1870s Martin acoustic guitar loaned to the production by the Martin museum. Instead, he accidentally smashed the real one. Jennifer Jason Leigh’s shocked reaction to this is genuine. Django Unchained: When Leonardo DiCaprio smashes his hand on the dinner-table, he accidentally crushed glass with his palm and did really begin to bleed. He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene and the injury was written into the scene.
One small but important correction: there were NO MEDICS in “Captain Phillips!” There are no medics in the US Navy-the enlisted medical personnel are Hospital Corpsman. Medics are in the Army and Air Force. The difference? Corpsman are trained more broadly, can serve independently, and are in the only strictly enlisted Corps in all of the uniformed services.
This scene with General Lee in “Gettysburg” stemmed from the fact that the director’s assistant had been promising us all week long that we’d get to see some of the stars. Particularly Lee. All of a sudden that afternoon, there arises a big cheer from the left of the line and here comes Lee on Traveler. Everyone went nuts and ran out and cheered like crazy. The director didn’t have any film in his camera, so he had us do it again and that’s what was seen in the film.
0:48 That sigaret launched towards some body, I was that somebody once, and the girl that launched it was sitting 2.5 meters away from me. The only thing I saw was a fast growing red hot sphere coming towards me until it exploded into a thousand red stars on my pupil. The wind will form a perfect red hot spherical point on the tip of a filter sigaret when it has speed. Had to ware an eye patch for three weeks, before it cured.
I think your ST 4 was a little off……..the “official” story goes that they were filming “guerilla-style,” with the actors wearing hidden microphones, sort of like a Candid Camera of its day. The police officer was a real police officer hired to help with traffic and locking down the set. But the people stopped, or at least the ones Chekov and Uhura attempted to stop, were actual pedestrians. This lady didn’t know (or at least at the moment did not recognize) the actors. So she just gave a sarcastic remark and left. Roddenberry and those around him had her stopped, explained to and then fortunately willingly sign the paperwork to get her paid and get her line into the movie. The story of her car being impounded is alleged to be true, although I’m not sure where you would find that source. The story of what I just wrote in them stopping real pedestrians I believe comes from both IMDB and various convention stories told over the years.
I read something completely different regarding the woman who told Chekov and Uhura where she thought the nuclear wessels were. I read she was out walking her dog, wasn’t paying attention and ended up on the set and Nichelle and Walter had no idea she wasn’t the extra. When she answered them it wasn’t scripted. So which one is the truth? No Idea.