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(Bold emphasis added.) You keep repeating the bolded claim, but it's factually inaccurate. The text outright says that you cast the...

(Bold emphasis added.) The text of Ready does indeed say the bolded portion. Specifically, it says: "When you Ready a spell, you cast...

I guess I'd characterise it as a reference to purpose - my interpretation deploys the canonical methodology of text, context, purpose.

A significant difference, for me, between readying and those subclass features is that the subclass features are intended to be...

Ok, so you're making a value judgment that it would be problematic to allow the Ready action to "circumvent[] restraints that are...

In my opinion, this is the weak point in your analysis. While it is true that the Ready action doesn't use the same "[a]s part of the...

Not true. "Ready" is in a table of the games "main actions" Ready is specifically refered to as "this action" in the description of...

Your conclusion that "[w]e know you MUST pick another action to ready" is incorrect. At a minimum, it is explicitly possible to ready...

I'm not ignoring the context, I simply view the context very differently than you do. I think the simplest reading is that: (a) the...

Despite my overall agreement with @ECMO3 concerning Action Surge and the Ready Action, I concur with you on this sub-point. I'd allow...

Sure it does! And it does so using very similar timing language for Improved War Magic. Consider: (Bold emphasis added.) In the case...

Not necessarily. There may be something preventing you from attacking now, and if there was, the problem would be with the criteria...

I question whether casting a spell via Action Surge is truly "something you're not supposed to do" when the fighter subclass Eldritch...

So, again, we’re bumping up against the problem of the word “action” being used both as the name of a resource you spend to do things on...

They don't consistently write it that way when casting is part of another action. Consider Improved War Magic, which permits casting a...