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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5608681" data-attributes="member: 78958">Look at it this way:Roll for Initiative!wait for it...wait for it...wait for it...1. It's your turn! You get to act. In fact, you get a move and a standard action right now, during your turn.  1a) You move. That takes a move action. Alrighty, what now?  1b) Still no idea what you'll do over here, but that Barbarian looks like he might want to charge you. What to do, what to do? Oh, I know! Ready that spear to attack the Barbarian, should he charge you! That takes your standard action.  1c) That's it, you're done for the turn - unless and until that Barbarian charges you, that is.[Everything according to the rules up to this point? You betcha! On your turn, you just took a move and a standard action. That's as it should be.]wait for it...wait for it...2. It's the Barbarian's turn, i.e. not your turn. The Barbarian charges! What's more, he charges you, because he's a Barbarian, and consequently illiterate and stupid, and he doesn't see you readied your spear for him to charge into.   2a) You can take a standard action or move action in response to the trigger (charging B.). Since you specified you'd attack, that is the standard action you must take now. Isn't it sweet? Because you used the ready action during your turn, you may now take another standard action out of your turn, which is not how it'd normally work. But the ready action makes it so. Nice, go ahead and whack him!   2b) B. gets to attack you, if he still stands after that spear thrust to the guts. This might sting a bit.   2c) You change your initiative to the Barbarian's plus an infinitesimal fraction. Your future turns will take place right before his. In your future turns, you may only take a standard and a move action, so take care not to do more than that - on your turn, that is. But you now understand the power of the ready action, which lets you take another standard action out of your turn.See how the basic stipulation (may only take move+standard on your turn) and the extra standard or move action granted by the ready action don't exclude each other? This works because of the following phrase:Aside from mechanics, this makes perfect sense, as you'd otherwise waste a standard action to effectively either a) decrease your initiative and be forced into a specific action you had to decide on beforehand (if the triggering condition is met) or b) do nothing (if the triggering condition is not met).Water Bob, I'm not always a fan of your queries, but this one has been a good one. Hopefully, I could be of help!</blockquote>

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