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Originally Posted by SableWyvern  I assume you understand the mechanical reasons for doing this -- you can't declare after a charge, because you've already been charged by that point.
2. Setting weapons may actively discourage a charge. If the enemy is readying itself to charge, and then sees you readying yourself to receive a charge and inflict hideous damage, they may rethink and cancel their action.
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Are enemies in fact allowed to do this? I don't have my
DMG handy, but I thought I read there that Gygax instructs DM's not to change the action of the monsters based on what the characters decide to do. So, in other words, if the characters tell the DM "We're gonna set our spears hard in case they charge," and the DM had already (privately) decided the monsters would charge, he should have the monsters charge, regardless of what the PCs have declared.
But I could be wrong. I'm reading the books for the first "serious" time since the early 80s.
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