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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6146218" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't agree with this.For instance, charge is a single action - so by this account you can't&nbsp; ready an action to (say) stab a person with your longspear as s/he charges you from 20' away - because before the action the charger is outside reach, and once the action is completled the charger is adjacent and has already rolled his/her attack against you.Also, this sentence seems confused:If the triggered action is part of another character’s activities, you interrupt the other character.How can the triggered action be part of another character's activities? Presumably what is meant is &quot;if the triggering action is part of another character's activities.&quot; Or, perhaps &quot;if the triggering condition is part of another character's activities&quot;.In any case, hurling a fireball bead would seem to be an event that is part of a spellcaster's activities, and a reasonable thing to ready movement in response to.If someone wants to spend their standard action readying a move action in response to an enemy's fireball, I don't see what is wrong with that. I certainly don't see how it is going to &quot;break the spell economy or otherwise screw casters or anyone else out of their actions&quot; (per [MENTION=95493]Tovec[/MENTION] upthread). The caster still gets to cast fireball - they haven't lost their action. But if they wanted to be guaranteed to hit the dodging person, they should have changed a Single Target rather than AoE attack spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6146218, member: 42582"] I don't agree with this. For instance, charge is a single action - so by this account you can't ready an action to (say) stab a person with your longspear as s/he charges you from 20' away - because before the action the charger is outside reach, and once the action is completled the charger is adjacent and has already rolled his/her attack against you. Also, this sentence seems confused: [indent]If the triggered action is part of another character’s activities, you interrupt the other character.[/indent] How can the triggered action be part of another character's activities? Presumably what is meant is "if the [I]triggering[/I] action is part of another character's activities." Or, perhaps "if the [I]triggering condition[/I] is part of another character's activities". In any case, hurling a fireball bead would seem to be an event that is part of a spellcaster's activities, and a reasonable thing to ready movement in response to. If someone wants to spend their standard action readying a move action in response to an enemy's fireball, I don't see what is wrong with that. I certainly don't see how it is going to "break the spell economy or otherwise screw casters or anyone else out of their actions" (per [MENTION=95493]Tovec[/MENTION] upthread). The caster still gets to cast fireball - they haven't lost their action. But if they wanted to be guaranteed to hit the dodging person, they should have changed a Single Target rather than AoE attack spell. [/QUOTE]

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