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<blockquote data-quote="Sadrik" data-source="post: 4954007" data-attributes="member: 14506">I understand the nuance. If you want to attack the creature before it attacks me (or others) then you have to make the trigger movement. The problem is that you are trying to attack them before they attack you (or others) and if the DM simply says he draws his bow you lose your readied action because he did not move.The other question is, where in the movement does the readied action take place?It seems from this that the readied action goes before they leave their square. Which means that you have to have reach and they have to be 1 square away to get this to work.Not to mention you have strangeness like this occurring:The party trains their bows on the wizard awaiting his spell. The wizard takes his action and moves&nbsp; out of the room and the party continue to wait.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Or...The party trains their bows on the wizard awaiting him to move. The wizard casts fireball on them and the party continues to wait.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Please answer my questions in the previous post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sadrik, post: 4954007, member: 14506"] I understand the nuance. If you want to attack the creature before it attacks me (or others) then you have to make the trigger movement. The problem is that you are trying to attack them before they attack you (or others) and if the DM simply says he draws his bow you lose your readied action because he did not move. The other question is, where in the movement does the readied action take place? It seems from this that the readied action goes before they leave their square. Which means that you have to have reach and they have to be 1 square away to get this to work. Not to mention you have strangeness like this occurring: The party trains their bows on the wizard awaiting his spell. The wizard takes his action and moves out of the room and the party continue to wait.:confused: Or... The party trains their bows on the wizard awaiting him to move. The wizard casts fireball on them and the party continues to wait.:confused: Please answer my questions in the previous post. [/QUOTE]

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