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And then it goes on to make an exception for spells. No other attack type is spelled out as an exception like that. The Magic Action...

it’s just shorthand for ‘specify a trigger to use the action as a reaction to’, it changes nothing about how it works I grant you...

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 consider it an important distinction, the Ready meta-action describes how to turn another action of your choice into your reaction...

the difference is that for other actions the entire action is delayed and might be wasted if the trigger does not happen, while the...

If your opinion is that the Ready action allows you to cast a 1 action spell with Action Surge, due to how easy it is to declare a...

Thanks. That's not worded as to allow spellcasting or the use of an item to be an optional activity. You would have to start casting...

To me, that's part of the point. Assuming they are different: To disallow the magic action, but to allow the ready action, even...

Except the ready action says you cast the spell "as normal" and limits the spell to 1 action spells. The "cast as normal...," to me...

Except when I was looking at the Magic section and the casting time: Casting Time Most spells require the Magic action to cast, but...

I'd like to see a 2024 monk in play. No one in any of my groups (I have 1 regular and 2 on-off ones) has taken one. Trauma from 2014...

It specifically says you cast the spell as normal during your turn. The only normal it can be referring to is the Magic Action. Then it...

That says you cast the (1 action only) spell as normal. Normal casting is as a magic action. So it seems quite off (to me) to so easily...

But as you, yourself said, that's just a game construct. Forgetting everything else, it seems really odd to just ignore the limitation...

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...