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I like to call it the Elven Longsword.

A good point well made. I definitely need to tone down my rhetoric.

Interesting Sage advice as well thanks for sharing. If readying a magic item spell doesn’t even expend charges or require concentration that further undermines the balance argument and all the more reason to take a less permissive around the ambiguity.

So it doesn’t require an action to use it working with merely a thought? Or do you think that it defaults to the Magic Action as per the Magic item introduction?

That in your opinion it isn’t unbalanced, is not a justification to say it’s a good face value reading of the rule. You might think it’s balanced but the Devs clearly didn’t want two spells to be cast with Action Surge whether by spellcasting or magic item. Which is why they specifically...

Ready Action: Any spell you can cast I can cast better. I can cast anything better than you. Magic Action: No you cant Ready Action: Yes I can Magic Action: No you can’t Ready Action: Yes I can Magic Action: No you can’t Ready Action: Yes I can, Yes I can, Yes I can!

I accept what you’re saying up to a point. Whether it’s a delay to the end of a six second window though It’s still a delay. Speed of casting is still dependent on initiative and spells have to be cast in some form of order right. Otherwise you’d never have reaction spells. The structure of a...

That is simply not the case. The reason those abilities don’t work is because they both clearly state the extra attacks must be linked to an attack on your turn. Not because Ready doesn’t count as an Attack action. The very fact that it had to be spelled out so explicitly is evidence that it...

For me, Dark Seldarine worshipping Drow are as a general rule a pretty nasty bunch. Though there are exceptions and I would not object to a good or neutral drow PC. Just most Drow you meet in my games are going to be bad guys. There are definitely communities of Drow worshipping the Sword...

Nevertheless it is a delay. That’s it’s called when you cause something to happen later than it would normally happen. Any way. You do you. Points have been made by all sides. Not interested in a game of “yes it is - no it isn’t - yes it is”.

It’s a unique catch-all action that allows most of the other actions on the list to used out of turn. That’s it. Nothing else. Suggesting that it’s in some sort of special class of Uber action that can mimic other actions without drawbacks is just bizarre. It’s included in that list because...

Ready absolutely is a delay. That is literally what it does. No one is being forced to do anything. You’re using a staff to cast a spell. Getting hung up on what you call that doesn’t really matter. All that said, we’re going round in circles here. You’ve made your mind up and won’t be...

This is an older post but worth saying that This is circular logic. You’re saying they’re different because one can be used to with action surge and the other can’t. But the only reason it can be used with action surge is because you’re saying they’re different. You haven’t actually identified...

I’m just perplexed by @ECMO3 ’s insistence that doing something as a ready action changes its fundamental nature and removes the restraints that normally apply to that action. Ready is just a way of delaying something. It shouldn’t let you work around something that isn’t otherwise possible. It...

Honestly it’s just great world-building and creativity. Love the unreliable narrator stuff. Keep going with this. You’ll definitely get clicks from me.

Maybe, but I think the series established quite early on that the other characters are just as important. I started a re-watch in the last fortnight and just finished series 1. Geralt spends most of the last three episodes locked up or unconscious on the back of a wagon. Most of episode 2 is...

Absolutely. That was kinda the point of my first question really. Why would people assume that Readying an action would fundamentally change the nature of what you were doing. When all that happens is it takes effect a few seconds later. At first I thought it was being used to get around the...

Maybe a re-watch will help. Sometimes things improve because expectations are tempered.

I disagree. The Ready action specifies that you cast the spell on your turn at the time of taking the Ready action. You then just delay the release of the spell. The reaction is simply to delay the result. The spell slot is expended at the point of casting the spell. The two slotted spell rule...