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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6298620" data-attributes="member: 6775031">All technically true, but specific timing can be very important. By readying an action, you get to take both the readied action and your next-turn action without giving an opponent the chance to respond. If you had taken that action on your original initiative, the enemy would be able to heal or run away or otherwise use the result of your action to inform its decision.However - and I am also answering based on 3.5 rules, so I hope someone more familiar with 4E can correct if it's no longer the case - the specific example given here would not work for a readied action. Because a readied action resolves before the action which triggers it, readying an action for when the gargoyle turns back from stone would mean that it's still stone as of the point you make your attack. It's the same reason why you can't use the provoked attack from a prone opponent standing up in order to trip that opponent again - at the time you make your opportunity attack, the enemy is still prone.</blockquote>