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The goal is absolutely not to circumvent a limitation by a clever arrangement of the rules, and it is specifically this characterization...

What’s the fictional reason that you can’t use the magic action with action surge again?

The trigger you have a problem with? I mean, that seems legitimate to me. If I'm defending my allies, it seems like "If the enemy...

Because it’s a question about the rules. Moreover, the fiction is malleable. You can always come up with a fictional explanation of what...

Again, I think Ready is intended to be an Action. The interpretation gets a lot cleaner when you accept that this is the case.

Clearly that’s the case, yes. Except in the specific case of using Ready to cast a spell, in which case there are other instructions in...

Nentir Vale has an extremely tight metaphysical setup. Both its core pantheon and its extraplanar structure feels very purposeful and...

I did like Nentir Vale, not that I know much of the rest of the world that it was in. I liked the gritty feeling and no large cities to...

I was speaking generally, in the sense that it seems against the intended purpose of the new limitation imposed on Action Surge. Not you...

I’m not sure bad faith means what you think it means. Bad faith is when you’re arguing for a position you don’t genuinely hold, for some...

With you so far. Well, in this case, what you’re Readying is releasing a spell. Again, the text of the Ready Action clearly lays out...

Rapiers were suitable for warfare in the same sense pistols were suitable for warfare WW1 till today. Both weapons have similar purpose...

Sure, but what it prevents from happening is the Magic Action. And the Ready Action is not the Magic Action. Granted, it can produce...

I suppose there's some precedent in the Rogue using a Readied Action to sneak attack outside of their turn. And the designers are on...

It says you cast it. This is a specific exception to the general rule that casting a spell with a casting time of 1 action requires...