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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6298537" data-attributes="member: 13107">This may be different in 4E; this is my understanding from 3E:They are not really going twice in a row.  They have their action, in effect, split between an initial step and a final step.<round>@<initiative number>: <actor> <action>Case 1, no readied actions:1@17: PC1 acts1@12: PC2 acts1@5: G acts2@17: PC1 acts2@12: PC2 acts2@5: G actsCase 2, with readied actions:1@17 PC1 readies1@12 PC2 readies1@5 G starts to act1@6 PC1 acts1@6 PC2 acts1@5 G acts2@6 PC1 acts2@6 PC2 acts2@5 G actsWhile PC1 and PC2 appear to have acted twice in round 1, they haven't: They are completing the action they started earlier in the round.  In no case do they get to do more in the two parts of their action than they did originally.Readied actions are strictly a loss (or the same) compared to regular actions: Nothing more can be done, and one's initiative drops.  (If the trigger action is immediately following the ready declaration, the readied action turns out to be no different than a non-readied action.)  And, if the trigger does not occur, the action is lost.Thx!TomB</blockquote>