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

Yes. I don’t dispute any of that. But nothing in that text says you take the Magic action. In fact, it wouldn’t make sense for you to do so, because you only have one action per turn, which you’re already using to take the Ready action. The different named action types, much like turns, are...

You did cast the spell beforehand. You just cast it using the Ready action rather than the Magic action. Like I said, the Magic action is the most common way to cast a spell, but it’s not the only way to do so. By not conflating “the Magic action” with “performing the necessary components and...

You literally do, that’s exactly what the text of the Ready action says you do. First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your Reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your Speed in response to it. Because...

I don’t see any reason you can’t. The Magic action is the most common way to cast a spell, but it’s not the only way. By this logic, you must somehow be taking the Magic action twice - once when you take the Ready action, and again when the trigger occurs, since the Ready action says you choose...

When you Ready an action, you don’t take that action until the trigger occurs. It literally says you choose the action you will take, as in you take the action in the future, not in the moment that you take the Ready action. You “cast the spell as normal,” but that doesn’t necessarily mean using...

I disagree, the restriction on Action Surge is against taking the Magic action, not against casting a spell, and I don’t find the idea that “casting a spell as normal” with the Ready action necessarily means taking the Magic action, particularly because the Ready action says you declare what...

An action is also a game rules construct, not a thing in the fiction. But, “as soon as (so and so) attacks” would be valid in my opinion.

I wouldn’t allow “when I blink” or similar and then blinking as soon as your turn is over either. Again, turns aren’t a thing in the fiction, so the character can’t blink when one ends any more than they can use one ending as a Ready trigger. It would have to be something that occurs in the game...

Personally, I don’t think “my turn ends” is a valid trigger for the Ready action, because it’s not a thing occurring in the game world. Turns are a strictly meta-game concept, the PC can’t wait for it to happen and take a reaction in response to it, because it doesn’t exist in their universe.

What? No they don’t. In the revised PHB, the only restriction on leveled spells is that you can only cast one spell with a spell slot per turn. Casting a spell with a spell slot as a reaction doesn’t run up against that restriction, unless the trigger for your reaction happened while it was...

I disagree with the folks saying this is not in the spirit of the rule. Using the Ready action to cast a spell as a Reaction is a lot worse than using the Magic action to cast a spell in a lot of ways. The most obvious is that it uses up your reaction, so you don’t have it available to make...

This looks very nice!!

You know who did a pretty decent catch-all furry species for 5e, actually? Stellarabooks in Kinks and Cantrips. I mean, it’s weirdly broken up into separate species for Predators and Prey, presumably for feral play reasons, but they could easily be lumped together into a pretty solid...

Hengeyokai were great for this! They did have some specific “Far East” flavor that you might not necessarily want in your anthro character… but, I mean, there’s a lot of crossover between furries and weebs (I kid! But, also, I’m low-key a bit of both things myself 😅) It does seem like lately...

I most often run premade adventures with heavy homebrew modifications. So, both, simultaneously 🤣

Yeah, that seems very likely to me. And even after the first round of feedback saying “why are these celestials? Just give us anthros,” the second pass… well, they lost the spectral wings but still vaguely tried to pay lip service to the celestial idea no one wanted. And then they got cut.

It’s the closest we really have, and only thanks to Kieth Baker being awesome. But, yeah, they’re pretty far to the anthropic side of anthropomorphic animals, with lycanthropy-specific details that might not work if you just want to be a dogboy or whatever and not a werewolf.

The race I was talking about (Ardlings, I think they were called?) were descended from Guardinals. It was still a confused mess. Probably doesn’t help that the average 5e player has never heard of a Guardinal.

Yeah, the lack of a catch-all anthro race in D&D seems like a glaring omission to me. And they kind of tried to make one for the 2024 PHB but for some reason insisted on tying them to a celestial origin and couldn’t get enough support in the surveys to clear the approval requirement because the...