Readying a move or charge?

[Big J Money]

I noticed a thread where someone posted this very clever trick to avoid OA's from your movement:

I like this tactic .. move off to the side, and ready a charge in response to an enemy brute's movement.
In order to charge the caster he's guarding.
'cos since it's his turn, charging by him doesn't provoke an OA.

Is this really legal? You could also do this with a move so as not to have to provoke OA. I would say that to legally declare a move though, you'd have to include the full movement in the declaration.

I don't have my book up here, but I wonder if the 'in response to an enemy's movement' is illegal. Still, I'm sure you could find legal triggers to make the trick happen.

Cheers,

-- John M.

 

[1of3]

Yes. It works.

Reacting to movement is perfectly fine. You can either react to the first square of movement or to entering a particular square or anything like that.

Your reaction won't trigger, though, before the other guy moves at least one square.