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Message: <blockquote data-quote="meleeguy" data-source="post: 2212045" data-attributes="member: 25845">Delving into the 3.5 DMG on page 25 there is a very interesting example involving a sorcerer, a beholder, and the readied action.  It is clear from that example that the rules intend the DM to be creative in resolving these kinds of situations.  In the example, a sorcerer is trying to use the ready action to interrupt a beholder's eye attack.  The difficulty of this sounds on the same order of magnitude as that of trying to catch an archer at the moment (or just before) he releases the string.  The preposed resolution in the example is opposed wis vs. dex check to see whether the sorcerer gets his action off before or after the beholder makes his.I posit that in complex ready action situations the designers intend that they resolved by the DM creatively using this  example as inspiration, and that this has the force of RAW, although not as a first source.  I would also use this example as a template for resolving the ninja hobo dilemma of an earlier thread as well.Wow, I used to hate 3rd edition until I gave into the dark side of the rules lawyer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>