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if it were a discrete action, it would do something discrete instead of delaying another action of your choice… this is going in...

which in other words is a delay of the action. Had you not delayed it into your reaction, you would have taken it right now, not later...

the Ready action does not give me a Reaction, I already had one. I also still use the Magic action because my spell slot is getting...

People. All the Ready Action does is allow you to use another action which you choose(attack, cast, move, etc.) to happen later. EXCEPT...

i mean. that just sounds like taking the action with extra steps.

Except the idea of "later in the round" doesn't actually exist, all of these actions are supposed to be happening simultaneously, the...

Nevertheless it is a delay. That’s it’s called when you cause something to happen later than it would normally happen. Any way. You do...

It’s a unique catch-all action that allows most of the other actions on the list to used out of turn. That’s it. Nothing else...

Ready absolutely is a delay. That is literally what it does. No one is being forced to do anything. You’re using a staff to cast a...

it's there because it has no good other place to be. The Ready action would not do anything if it would not piggy-back on another action...

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

Yeah, I’d say that’s an accurate summary.

I’m just perplexed by @ECMO3 ’s insistence that doing something as a ready action changes its fundamental nature and removes the...