D&D 5E Take the Ready action.

[Starfox]

I am late to the party and won't read the 8 pages just for a short comment.

With how movement works in 5E, it is trivial to hide behind a corner, move out of cover, fire a ranged attack, and then move back around the corner you came from. For the opposition, the ready action gives them a chance to shoot you while you move out of cover. Otherwise, their only options are to charge or use area attacks blindly.

We are still new to 5E and not sure how movement works with the ready. How we understand it is that movement is limited during your entire round - so you can split your movement between your own turn and the action you take as a reaction. This allows things like readying a charge, which so far works at our table. Did I mention our party is 3 wizards, 1 bard, and one artificer - not many readied charges so far.

Edit: With this generous interpretation of movement, I might also allow a fighter to ready the attack action - which would include a full set of attacks. This is just a thought I had right now - not checked the rule book at all.

 

[Maxperson]

There would be no reason to since you wouldn't be able to move afterwards.

Sure you can. One of the PHB examples is reading an action and moving away(not dashing away). Moving can be part of your readied action. That means that you could ready an action to disengage and move 30 feet away if an enemy moves next to you.

 

[Charlaquin]

We are still new to 5E and not sure how movement works with the ready. How we understand it is that movement is limited during your entire round - so you can split your movement between your own turn and the action you take as a reaction. This allows things like readying a charge, which so far works at our table. Did I mention our party is 3 wizards, 1 bard, and one artificer - not many readied charges so far.

That seems reasonable as a house rule, but if you’re curious what the RAW is, it’s that you can either Ready an action or Ready to move up to your speed. If you Ready to move, it doesn’t matter how much movement you used on your turn, you still get your full speed worth of movement in response to the Readied trigger. If you Ready an action, you don’t get to move at all before or after you take it. You get one or the other, not both.

Edit: With this generous interpretation of movement, I might also allow a fighter to ready the attack action - which would include a full set of attacks. This is just a thought I had right now - not checked the rule book at all.

By the book, you can Ready the Attack action, but you would only get to make one attack if you do so, even if you have the Extra Attack feature. This is because the Extra Attack feature says you can make an additional attack when you take the Attack action on your turn. If you Ready the Attack action to use at some point other than your turn, Extra Attack doesn’t trigger.

 

[Charlaquin]

Sure you can. One of the PHB examples is reading an action and moving away(not dashing away). Moving can be part of your readied action. That means that you could ready an action to disengage and move 30 feet away if an enemy moves next to you.

That’s incorrect. The Ready action says you can use an action or move up to your speed in response to the trigger, not both.

 

[mrpopstar]

Sure you can. One of the PHB examples is reading an action and moving away(not dashing away). Moving can be part of your readied action. That means that you could ready an action to disengage and move 30 feet away if an enemy moves next to you.

Not capital "D" Disengage, but move away certainly.

 

[mrpopstar]

Here's a question for the room: In the example of "If the goblin steps next to me, I move away," this movement triggers an attack of opportunity as the readied reaction occurs after the trigger finishes, yes?

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Here's a question for the room: In the example of "If the goblin steps next to me, I move away," this movement triggers an attack of opportunity as the readied reaction occurs after the trigger finishes, yes?

I try to GM in a non-adversarial fashion, or at least better than a computer would. If someone in the game world intended to keep its distance from an enemy, he'd be ready to move away when the goblin makes his move (two squares away, three if he's obviously carrying a reach weapon), not when he has finished it and is able to strike him. I'd say that "the trigger is not clear enough, take your opportunity attack" would prompt the players into making extremely detailed Ready trigger and note down when it worked as intended to be repeated from the piece of paper.... Not sure it's fun. When in doubt over the intent, I ask the player if it triggers the readied action (for example, if he wants to move away from any creature, I ask "including non hostile?" instead of triggering when the wizards familiar flies away...)

On the topic of Readied action, it's playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister that made me realize you get only one attack.

 

[Charlaquin]

Here's a question for the room: In the example of "If the goblin steps next to me, I move away," this movement triggers an attack of opportunity as the readied reaction occurs after the trigger finishes, yes?

That’s my understanding of how it works.

 

[cmad1977]

Here's a question for the room: In the example of "If the goblin steps next to me, I move away," this movement triggers an attack of opportunity as the readied reaction occurs after the trigger finishes, yes?

This is when player intent trumps player statement.

 

[Oofta]

Sure you can. One of the PHB examples is reading an action and moving away(not dashing away). Moving can be part of your readied action. That means that you could ready an action to disengage and move 30 feet away if an enemy moves next to you.

You can't do both. You either take an action or move: "choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your speed in response to it."

Disengaging as your reaction's action wouldn't buy you anything; you just took your action so you can't also move. The only time it makes sense to ready a dash is if you already moved.

EDIT: ninja'd by @Charlaquin. I would allow the trigger to be an enemy appearing or moving towards the PC but before they get in melee range.