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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7572327" data-attributes="member: 40176">All of those are acceptable wordings. And in all cases, you'd attack after the spell was cast, because the trigger is the spell being cast.Because that's what the rules say. It's even the specific case used in the Sage Advice quote cited earlier in the thread. You are readying an attack in the event of the Grimlock attacking the wizard, and therefore your reaction occurs after that event finishes. Otherwise why would they have bothered including that line in the rules?Perfectly acceptable. And your readied action will be triggered immediately, because the Mind Flayer is neither standing as still as a statue nor attempting to be completely silent.The difference is, I'm not looking for a specific clever wording or special circumstance that will allow this, because I'm confident that the reason the rules were worded as they are is in order to not allow this. There is no way to use a Readied attack to disrupt the casting of a spell, so no amount of special phrasing will accomplish it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7572327, member: 40176"] All of those are acceptable wordings. And in all cases, you'd attack after the spell was cast, because the trigger is the spell being cast. Because that's what the rules say. It's even the specific case used in the Sage Advice quote cited earlier in the thread. You are readying an attack in the event of the Grimlock attacking the wizard, and therefore your reaction occurs after that event finishes. Otherwise [b]why would they have bothered including that line in the rules?[/b] Perfectly acceptable. And your readied action will be triggered immediately, because the Mind Flayer is neither standing as still as a statue nor attempting to be completely silent. The difference is, I'm not looking for a specific clever wording or special circumstance that will allow this, because I'm confident that the reason the rules were worded as they are is in order to [i]not[/i] allow this. There is no way to use a Readied attack to disrupt the casting of a spell, so no amount of special phrasing will accomplish it. [/QUOTE]

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