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<blockquote data-quote="Esker" data-source="post: 7638270" data-attributes="member: 6966824">Huh? If you want to say &quot;you can't dash twice&quot; then it seems to matter whether the thing you're trying to do involves dashing twice, no? Also you keep calling it &quot;readying a dash&quot;, which to a layperson sounds like you think you wind up taking the dash action when the trigger occurs. If you don't, then you've only dashed once. For the record, I think it would be totally reasonable -- perhaps elegant, even -- to treat readied movement as simply readying the dash action, given that dash adds to the amount you can move during the turn you dash, which would normally be zero if it's not your turn. I don't think the main risk is that you're going to get people holding up the game arguing over things like this. Extended rules discussions at the table are bad, unless I suppose everyone thinks that's the best way to spend their time in that moment (which I'm sure is extremely rare in almost any group). I think the risk is that if you're playing with anyone who likes to know what rules they're playing under, then you should state your house rule in a precise way. That doesn't mean you can't revise them later if they turn out to have unexpected consequences, but you should at least try to cover the expected consequences precisely. Again, maybe neither you or any of your players care about any of that. But a lot of players do, and since you're posting about it here, it's probably meaningful whether your proposed house rule is one that would work for other tables.Just saying &quot;You can't dash twice&quot; isn't well defined. Twice per what? &quot;You can't take the dash action more than once in a turn&quot; is well defined, but doesn't cover the readied case. &quot;You can't take the dash action more than once per round&quot; is well defined, but only covers the readied case if you clarify that readied movement (as distinct from other kinds of movement that occur as a reaction) counts as a readied dash. It's still a nerf to the rogue, and IMO a bad idea, but if you clarify that, it at least does what you want it to do (I think).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Esker, post: 7638270, member: 6966824"] Huh? If you want to say "you can't dash twice" then it seems to matter whether the thing you're trying to do involves dashing twice, no? Also you keep calling it "readying a dash", which to a layperson sounds like you think you wind up taking the dash action when the trigger occurs. If you don't, then you've only dashed once. For the record, I think it would be totally reasonable -- perhaps elegant, even -- to treat readied movement as simply readying the dash action, given that dash adds to the amount you can move during the turn you dash, which would normally be zero if it's not your turn. I don't think the main risk is that you're going to get people holding up the game arguing over things like this. Extended rules discussions at the table are bad, unless I suppose everyone thinks that's the best way to spend their time in that moment (which I'm sure is extremely rare in almost any group). I think the risk is that if you're playing with anyone who likes to know what rules they're playing under, then you should state your house rule in a precise way. That doesn't mean you can't revise them later if they turn out to have unexpected consequences, but you should at least try to cover the expected consequences precisely. Again, maybe neither you or any of your players care about any of that. But a lot of players do, and since you're posting about it here, it's probably meaningful whether your proposed house rule is one that would work for other tables. Just saying "You can't dash twice" isn't well defined. Twice per what? "You can't take the dash action more than once in a turn" is well defined, but doesn't cover the readied case. "You can't take the dash action more than once per round" is well defined, but only covers the readied case if you clarify that readied movement (as distinct from other kinds of movement that occur as a reaction) counts as a readied dash. It's still a nerf to the rogue, and IMO a bad idea, but if you clarify that, it at least does what you want it to do (I think). [/QUOTE]

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