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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7572390" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Let's look at this in a slightly different way. Here's the scenario:A bowman is standing over a trap door in the floor and you have your hand on the lever that triggers it. He is holding his bow, but his arrows are still in his quiver. He has valuable information, so you don't want to just trigger the trap and possibly kill him. You have won initiative and are acting first:You: I tell him not to attack or I will pull the lever.DM: Ok, so you are Readying your action to Use an Object, the lever, if he attacks.You: Yep. I know I could interact with it for free now, but I don't want to do it unless I have to.DM: Sure, he shoots you then.You: What!? Wait, don't I get to pull the lever first?DM: You would think so, huh? But since the triggering action was his attack, and your readied action doesn't take place until after the triggering action, he still gets his attack against you.You: That can't be how it works!?DM: Sure it is. Page 191 of the PHB. I'll read it to you: "When the trigger event occurs [his attack], you can either take your reaction right after the trigger finishes or ignore the trigger." So, you can pull the lever after I resolve his attack on you, but not before it. Sorry.You: Then what was the point of my standing there holding the lever???DM: Nothing, I guess you should have just pulled it on your turn and hope he survived. *grins*That is my interpretation of how the official system works currently. I think that is pretty much how it reads, right? Am I wrong about this? If so, PLEASE tell me how.</blockquote>

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