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Except that it's not a workaround. It takes your Concentration, which is a big cost, and your Reaction, which is often used by both...

Assuming for the sake of argument that your interpretation is the intended one, and Ready is not meant to be an Action itself, then I...

And frankly, I don't want to play with someone who's so determined to be right that they can't move past a rule. TTRPGs are a...

You won me over with your last paragraph. There will always be disagreements in a game, but there has to be someone who makes the final...

I don’t dispute that. The text of the Ready Action says that you cast the spell on your turn, therefore casting a spell on your turn is...

But you would have to spend the resource when you use the item as a Reaction. So you can’t use Action Surge to cast a spell on your...

It assumes that they wrote the rules the way they did on purpose. If one believes them to have been written in error, or simply dislikes...

It doesn’t say the Magic Action happens as normal, it says you cast the spell as normal. Casting the spell is part of the effect of the...

It defaults to magic action because casting a spell uses the magic action.

Yes, and they also tell you to do that Action later, in response to the trigger, not immediately on your turn. If you did it immediately...

My opinion regarding the OP’s scenario is that if you can take a Magic action, then you can use a Ready action for a spell. If you’ve...

I t doesn’t turn the Action into a Reaction, it gives you another way to use your Reaction. Specifically, to perform the chosen action...

That, to me, would imply special permission to use Action Surge to cast a spell using the Magic Action and expending your Reaction...

To be clear, my interpretation is that you do still use a Magic Action when you Ready a spell. You just use it later, as a Reaction...

Right, but you’re not just casting two spells with action surge. You’re casting one spell with action surge and then trading your...