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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altamont Ravenard" data-source="post: 1912663" data-attributes="member: 14700">First of all, normally, when you cast ethereal jaunt, you become ethereal, and you can dismiss it to come back to the material plane.The way you describe your dire lions' ability isn't how the spell works, IMO.The dire lions should use a standard action to use their ability. Now they are ethereal, and can remain so for 1 round per caster level. If they wish to dismiss their ethereal condition, they need a standard action. IMO, the lions should instead wait until their spell runs out (just before it's their turn to act), appear, attack, and on their NEXT turn, they may use their ability again to become ethereal for a certain number of rounds.What you propose is very nasty, and I'm not even sure the characters could do anything about it, but that's because I still have problems understanding how a surprise round is supposed to work.What I mean is if the characters have NO way of knowing where the lions are when they are ethereal, then, shouldn't the lions get to surprise the characters whenever they pop back into the material plane?As for your second question, a readied action is a standard action, so, no full attacks on a readied action.AR</blockquote>