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Agreed. No, you’re taking the Ready Action. The effects of the Ready Action include casting a spell with a casting time of 1 Action...

Yes, correct. And all of this is part of the effects specified by the Ready Action. The Magic Action allows you to cast a spell with a...

“Delay” is not a term that appears anywhere in the text of the Ready action, and thinking of it in those terms is what is leading you to...

🙄 It gives you a way to use your Reaction that you wouldn’t otherwise have. Forgive my slight error in phrasing. The spell slot (or in...

It is a specific triggering event, not a delay. If it was a delay it would always happen, as a Ready Action it only happens if the...

This is not true. You absolutely can take the Magic Action as a readied action when the trigger happens off turn. Here is the text...

You can’t take two Actions simultaneously, and you certainly can’t take an action in response to a trigger before that trigger has...

Right, so that’s when you perform the necessary components and spend the necessary resources Except you’ve already used your Action to...

Again, it isn’t just a different label. It’s a completely separate entry in the list of Actions with completely different rules for how...

If it wasn’t meant to be a discrete Action, but a special way you could perform an action, it could have been written just after the...

yeah, can be read that way. Not how I read it or would rule it, but it is ambiguous enough to not be obviously wrong I guess

Ready doesn’t delay any action. It allows you to take another action as a Reaction in response to a later trigger. It’s literally an...

I agree. Which means, you aren’t using the Magic action with the second action Action Surge gives you. You’re using it with the Reaction...

Just as if you Ready a spell, you can’t suddenly cast the spell without a slot or the necessary components for it. But in both cases...

You’re taking the Ready action. The Ready action is an action in and of itself, distinct from the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help...