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Given that nothing about the text indicates that Ready allows you to take a second action on your turn, context makes it incredibly...
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My comment was a bit dismissive, you're not wrong in that there can be rewards to the story for taking risks. While some DM's are mean...
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I do. Obviously it’s impossible to know for sure unless the designers say, but I think my reading is the most straightforward...
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I am not one of those DMs because I never played during a time when those spells worked that way. But, in those DMs’ defense, that was...
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This is a logical falacy. If I choose the Magic action in response to a trigger, and trigger has not happened, then the action can not...
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no it is not. The game states it is an action. It states this at least twice. In the description of ready it states: "You take the...
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Yes it is. It absolutely is. It is on the table of the games main actions. Nowhere, anywhere do the 2024 rules indicate Ready is not...
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And use the Ready action to cast it (since that is the section this wording is under)
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Please tell me where I can find the explicit language that lets me take 2 actions on one turn as long as one of them is the Ready action...
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No, and you can not take 2 actions on your turn.
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It is in the rules glossary under Ready action. You can look it up there. Also where does it specifically let you take 2 actions on...
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No they aren't. A Valor Bard can cast any Cantrip with a casting time of an action as part of the attack action. An Eldritch Knight...
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It is in the description of the Ready action, under "Ready a spell".
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Yes, like this being specifically spelled out in the description of the Ready action and the specificity associated with "Ready a spell"...
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Other than, you know, the text of the ready action, which specifically says you cast the spell when you use it.
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