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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 3086343" data-attributes="member: 19990">[code]E  Z E[/code]Ok, you can maneuver to any square you desire, and you still can't catch that pair in a 15' cone.  They just aren't close together enough to do that.  Second, neither one has ever come closer than 10 feet.  At the end of the round, what you see above is as close as they get to him.  Zaeryl's stated action was, "backing slowly away, but now angling so that he can be sure that no matter way the two continue, they will both be fried by his readied crystals if one even begins to come closer than 10 feet".  Well, that stated action was an impossibility.  The way the two continued, they never got closer to each other than what you see there, and they never came closer than the 10' they are now from Zaeryl.I mean, how do you ready a move action based on the move action of someone who follows you in the initiative order?  Imagine that you're in a 100' x 100' room, all doors locked, and being pursued by someone who moves 60' to your 30'.  You're first in the initiative order.  Your action?  "I ready an action to always stay 20' from my pursuer."  If you were allowed to always move last like that, even though you're first in the initiative order, your pursuer could never catch you...you could always wait until they go first, then move to a square 20' from the one they ended their movement in and claim "they triggered my readied action to move, so they never got closer than 20' to me."  Which is clearly absurd, since in a situation like that the pursuer should always be able to catch you (end up in an adjacent square) after a few rounds.</blockquote>

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