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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5608819" data-attributes="member: 32740">Readying is an initiative action - initiative is not about time being expended but about the ORDER OF RESOLUTION for actions. The list of actions you may take in a round (standard+move, or instead a full-round action) is what controls the time you spend doing things in a round.&nbsp;Ready is listed as a standard action simply to control what else you can do on your turn when you ready. Readying obviously has no immediate result and may not even accomplish anything for the character at all if the conditions to trigger the readied action are not met later in the round. The benefit of the special action of readying is to allow you the possibility of taking a standard action not on your own turn but on someone elses turn and to have your action still resolved PRIOR to his. It is STILL about determining the order of resolution of actions, not granting you more OF them.&nbsp;In the case of an opponent charging you, readying becomes useful because you might not be able to reach a potentially charging opponent on your own turn. Readying generally makes sense only when taking all your actions ON YOUR TURN won't accomplish what you want/need. Readying moves your standard action to someone elses turn (assuming, again, that the trigger conditions are met) when THEIR actions will make YOURS possible which it otherwise wouldn't be.&nbsp;You seem to be thinking that because readying is classified as a standard action that a character who uses it is being granted TWO standard actions in a round when the readied action occurs, but that isn't really what's happening. It's simply allowing a more complicated arrangement of when your allowed actions are resolved by including a caveat that the one NOT being taken on your turn has conditions that must be met in order to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5608819, member: 32740"] Readying is an initiative action - initiative is not about time being expended but about the ORDER OF RESOLUTION for actions. The list of actions you may take in a round (standard+move, or instead a full-round action) is what controls the time you spend doing things in a round. Ready is listed as a standard action simply to control what else you can do [I]on your turn[/I] when you ready. Readying obviously has no immediate result and may not even accomplish anything for the character at all if the conditions to trigger the readied action are not met later in the round. The benefit of the special action of readying is to allow you the possibility of taking a standard action not on your own turn but on someone elses turn and to have your action still resolved PRIOR to his. It is STILL about determining the order of resolution of actions, not granting you more OF them. In the case of an opponent charging you, readying becomes useful because you might not be able to reach a potentially charging opponent on your own turn. Readying generally makes sense only when taking all your actions ON YOUR TURN won't accomplish what you want/need. Readying moves your standard action to someone elses turn (assuming, again, that the trigger conditions are met) when THEIR actions will make YOURS possible which it otherwise wouldn't be. You seem to be thinking that because readying is classified as a standard action that a character who uses it is being granted TWO standard actions in a round when the readied action occurs, but that isn't really what's happening. It's simply allowing a more complicated arrangement of when your allowed actions are resolved by including a caveat that the one NOT being taken on your turn has conditions that must be met in order to work. [/QUOTE]

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