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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2835932" data-attributes="member: 1656">Well, it's certainly debatable, but I'll go through the reasoning.The ready action lets you prepare to take an action later, after your turn is over but before your next one has begun. Readying is a standard action.So, in my turn, I get a standard action and a move action.  I use the standard action to ready a different standard action (Attack) to take later, after my turn is over but before my next one has begun.  Then, before my turn is over, I use my move action.  The Ready action does not in itself end my turn.Potential problem: Then, any time before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition.Now, the move action is, under one reading of the phrase, my 'next action'.  Which would prohibit the sequence, since it would mean that I would no longer be eligible to take the readied attack action in response to the condition after the movement.However, from the Stunning Fist feat:A defender who fails this saving throw is stunned for 1 round (until just before your next action).And from the Combat Expertise feat:The changes to attack rolls and Armor Class last until your next action.So, we can see that the phrase "your next action" can refer, in fact, to "your next turn in the initiative order", rather than "the next free/move/standard/swift/immediate action you take, whether it is in this turn or not".So if we read "your next action" in this way in the Ready description, I can Ready my attack (standard action), move (move action), end my turn, and then take the Readied attack in response to the appropriate conditions some time before my next turn in the initiative order.As another example, let's say I Ready an action to do something, and some time after my turn but before the Readied action triggers, I cast an Immediate Action spell.  Soon after this - before my next turn - the condition for my Readied action arises.  Can I take the Readied action?-Hyp.</blockquote>

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