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The somatic component was a basic part of spellcasting. Many spells required the caster to make a motion to cast the spell. If the caster was unable to make the correct motion, the spell could not be cast. Wearing armor or using a shield interfered with the somatic components of arcane spells, creating a risk of spell failure. Bards and some other arcane classes could cast spells in light armor without this risk, because their somatic components were less elaborate. Each spellcasting tradition had its own somatic components.

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  • The somatic component was a basic part of spellcasting. Many spells required the caster to make a motion to cast the spell. If the caster was unable to make the correct motion, the spell could not be cast. Wearing armor or using a shield interfered with the somatic components of arcane spells, creating a risk of spell failure. Bards and some other arcane classes could cast spells in light armor without this risk, because their somatic components were less elaborate. Each spellcasting tradition had its own somatic components.
  • A spell which has a somatic spell component is one that requires some form of arm or hand gestures to perform. a caster must have at least one hand free to provide a somatic component. Arcane spellcasters attempting to cast a somatic spell may suffer arcane spell failure from wearing armor. This can be eliminated with the still spell metamagic. Bards and Warlocks suffer no such spell failure while wearing light armor, and these two classes can also take the Battle Caster feat in order to extend this to medium armor as well.
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  • The somatic component was a basic part of spellcasting. Many spells required the caster to make a motion to cast the spell. If the caster was unable to make the correct motion, the spell could not be cast. Wearing armor or using a shield interfered with the somatic components of arcane spells, creating a risk of spell failure. Bards and some other arcane classes could cast spells in light armor without this risk, because their somatic components were less elaborate. Each spellcasting tradition had its own somatic components.
  • A spell which has a somatic spell component is one that requires some form of arm or hand gestures to perform. a caster must have at least one hand free to provide a somatic component. Arcane spellcasters attempting to cast a somatic spell may suffer arcane spell failure from wearing armor. This can be eliminated with the still spell metamagic. Bards and Warlocks suffer no such spell failure while wearing light armor, and these two classes can also take the Battle Caster feat in order to extend this to medium armor as well.
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