D&D 5E Take the Ready action.

[Charlaquin]

You have 30 movement that turn. Movement changes turn to turn, speed does not and there are no conditions required for "spending" movement that I am aware of.

It either needs to be your turn, or you need to have used the Ready action to allow you to move up to your speed. That wouldn’t need to be a specific option for how to use the Ready action if Readying to Dash did the same thing.

If you have movement on a turn you can move on that turn. That is how I interpret the rules and the sage advice.

That’s clearly not the case, otherwise you would be able to spend some of your movement on your turn, and spend the remainder on another turn (because that would be a turn on which you had movement).

 

[Plaguescarred]

To borrow from a scenario previously presented in this thread, let's say you anticipate an ally will cast darkness and you will be in the spell's area of effect. If you take the Ready action to Hide when the magical darkness spreads, you're stuck standing in place when you take your reaction. What's the benefit this round and how does it differ from simply being unseen?

You'd get the benefit of being hidden, which means hiding away your location and forcing enemies to guess your location square/space, where simply being invisible/unseen would not.

 

[mrpopstar]

You'd get the benefit of being hidden, which means hiding away your location and forcing enemies to guess your location square/space, where simply being invisible/unseen would not.

But your location is easily guessed because they know exactly where you are (which is probably standing in the middle of an open space believing that hidden is affording you more than it is in this scenario).

 

[Charlaquin]

There is nothing in the rules about "spending" movement.

There’s also nothing in the rules about “movement” as a resource except the dash action - it simply says that on your turn you can move a distance equal to your speed. The wording on the dash action is an artifact from the playtest, where the wording for movement and position was different. It actually did talk about “movement” as a thing you had an amount of equal to your speed. The wording of the dash action was clearer in that context. With the way movement and position was revised in the final release, dash should say that it increases your speed, or that you can move up to your speed an additional time.

Dash gives you movement on the current turn, that can be someone else's turn, just like some feats, abilities, legendary actions and maneuvers give movement on someone else's turn.

Do you have an example?

 

[Plaguescarred]

But your location is easily guessed because they know exactly where you are (which is probably standing in the middle of an open space believing that hidden is affording you more than it is in this scenario).

It's metagame at this point as they don't know if you're still there or phased out etc... You were there and all of a sudden they lost trace of it completly going off their radar....

You'd still be hidden nonetheless and could benefit from any other game element that apply, if any.

 

[J.Quondam]

Ugh, I'm confused.
I've always thought of Move and Dash as completely separate things, meaning a character can Move up to their speed on their turn, and then Ready a Dash action to reposition himself up to their speed away upon a trigger.

"I move toward the wizard (Move 30). If he starts casting a spell, I'll dive behind those boulders over there for cover (Ready a Dash 30)."

Is this not a proper usage of Ready?

 

[Charlaquin]

Ugh, I'm confused.
I've always thought of Move and Dash as completely separate things, meaning a character can Move up to their speed on their turn, and then Ready a Dash action to reposition himself up to their speed away upon a trigger.

"I move toward the wizard (Move 30). If he starts casting a spell, I'll dive behind those boulders over there for cover (Ready a Dash 30)."

Is this not a proper usage of Ready?

Under either of the two competing interpretations here, what you’re describing is possible, since moving up to your speed is explicitly a thing you can use the Ready action to do. One interpretation says that Readying a Dash could also allow you to do that. I don’t favor this interpretation, in part because why would they write two ways to do exactly the same thing? The other interpretation says that when you Dash, you increase the distance you can move by your speed, but it doesn’t actually allow you to move. If, theoretically, you somehow had two actions and two reactions, you could Ready a Dash and Ready movement to move 60 feet.

 

[mrpopstar]

There’s also nothing in the rules about “movement” as a resource except the dash action - it simply says that on your turn you can move a distance equal to your speed. The wording on the dash action is an artifact from the playtest, where the wording for movement and position was different. It actually did talk about “movement” as a thing you had an amount of equal to your speed. The wording of the dash action was clearer in that context. With the way movement and position was revised in the final release, dash should say that it increases your speed, or that you can move up to your speed an additional time.

This!

It's metagame at this point as they don't know if you're still there or phased out etc... You were there and all of a sudden they lost trace of it completly going off their radar....

I don't disagree, but taking the Ready action in many of these proposed scenarios is pretty metagamey from the start. Although, it's not entirely unreasonable narratively to shoot an arrow into the space you were last seen given all that's taking place within a round of 6 seconds.

You'd still be hidden nonetheless and could benefit from any other game element that apply, if any.

The only benefit is being unseen, making it a wash.

 

[Plaguescarred]

Sorta. Ready let you choose to move up to your speed in response to a trigger. So you can move, and Ready to move up to your speed as an action.

 

[J.Quondam]

Under either of the two competing interpretations here, what you’re describing is possible, since moving up to your speed is explicitly a thing you can use the Ready option to move up to your speed. One interpretation says that Readying a Dash could also allow you to do that. I don’t favor this interpretation, in part because why would they write two ways to do exactly the same thing? The other interpretation says that when you Dash, you increase the distance you can move by your speed, but it doesn’t actually allow you to move. If, theoretically, you somehow had two actions and two reactions, you could Ready a Dash and Ready movement to move 60 feet.

Thanks for succinctly clarifying the two interpretations here!