Readied charge?

[Doug McCrae]

Can you charge with a readied action?

You can ready a standard action, a move action, or a free action.

If you are able to take only a standard action or a move action on your turn, you can still charge... You can't use this option unless you are restricted to taking only a standard action or move action on your turn (such as during a surprise round).

 

[Ender_rpm]

Sure, but you can only move your base movement, not up to double as normal for a charge.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Sure

What's your reasoning for this? The PHB page 154 says 'You can't use this option unless you are restricted to taking only a standard action or move action on your turn' and clearly the charger isn't so restricted. He can take a move action and a standard action (the standard action being used to ready).

By the rules strangely this would mean that you can charge with a readied action on a surprise round but not at any other time.

 

[irdeggman]

By the rules strangely this would mean that you can charge with a readied action on a surprise round but not at any other time.

Or you are a zombie.

But you also "technically" can't "ready" an action until you are in the initiative round in the first place so. . . .

 

[The Souljourner]

The answer is no. The only time you can use charge as a standard action is during a round in which you are restricted to only a standard action, this is the case during the surprise round, when you are slowed, and if you're a zombie. When you ready, you've already used part of your turn, and part of that is being able to do a move action in addition to the ready.

Readying a charge is no longer legal in 3.5.

-Nate

 

[irdeggman]

Readying a charge is no longer legal in 3.5.

-Nate

Whereas "readying for a charge" is perfectly legal (and the way to get extra damage with spears).

 

[Particle_Man]

The Cometary Collision feat in PHB II explicitly says you may ready a charge vs. a charging opponent. It may be the exception to the rule about readying a charge, but I don't think so.

One could argue that when you ready a standard action you are in effect restricted to that standard action (you are restricting yourself, but that is still a restriction). That would allow one to charge as a standard action (the single-move charge, not the double-move charge).

 

[Ender_rpm]

Readying a charge is no longer legal in 3.5.

-Nate

source please? Never had this issue myself, just like to know.

 

[mikebr99]

The Cometary Collision feat in PHB II explicitly says you may ready a charge vs. a charging opponent. It may be the exception to the rule about readying a charge, but I don't think so.

I would think Cometary Collison would be a useless feat if it wasn't the exception to the rule... YMMV

Mike

 

[mikebr99]

source please? Never had this issue myself, just like to know.

Well, charge is "a special full-round action"... and you can't ready full-round actions.

Mike