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Elemental body places no restriction on spellcasting
Nowhere in the elemental body spell is any limitation on spellcasting offered. It simply says you take the forms of the various elementals.
Elementals are capable of casting spells
Unlike animals, elementals can talk, tend to be roughly humanoid in appearance, and thus can perform gestures and ...
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How you approach this depends on how the GM runs the game. A rules centric GM can certainly be convinced by pointing out the rules (politely!). But for someone that is more story-centric and has put time into the plot and world, that won't work at all. I for instance have a tendency of house-ruling very liberally (but I warn all players of that and the ...
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First, make sure your DM understands this is a houserule.
Show him the actual rules regarding this situation in the Player’s Handbook. @DuckTapeal has quoted the relevant section from the System Reference Document, which is official and accurate, but for maximum effectiveness go back to the book.
In addition to that line in the Magic section, the ...
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From the d20 SRD Magic section:
Spells also fail if your concentration is broken and might fail if you’re wearing armor while casting a spell with somatic components.
As it says above, armor can only cause spell failure if you're casting a spell with somatic components. Spells with only verbal and material components are unaffected by ASF.
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The rules are quite clear about bards casting spells without somatic components.
The question becomes, what's your next course of action? Since showing him the book and the SRD are insufficient, I doubt pointing him at rpg.stackexchange.com is really going to change his mind. Do you want him to explain exactly what rules changes he is making so that your ...
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The SRD is very much on your side as a Fighter/Bard if you're wearing light armour:
Bards can wear light armor without incurring any arcane spell failure chance for their bard spells.
And with heavier armour it's got your back too – it's explicit that you only suffer an Arcane Spell Failure chance with spells that have somatic components:
If the ...
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