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<blockquote data-quote="Blackbrrd" data-source="post: 4954570" data-attributes="member: 63962">&quot;What good is readying for something and then not be prepared enough to act on it until after the fact? The readying creature is taking the risk of the trigger not occuring and time being wasted, the reward for taking the risk should be his, not the other creature's.&quot;If ready actions are Immidiate Interrupts, you can have two medium sized creatures, one of them has an at-will power that lets him shift after doing an attack. This creature readies the attack. The other creatures attacks it, he attacks back before the attack resolves and the first monsters attack doesn't have a valid target and does nothing. The attacking creature can't react in any way to the ready action, since he can't take immidiate actions on anothers turn... It would be nearly impossible for the attacking creature to attack the readying creature.To sum it up: ready actions as Immidiate Reactions makes sense mechanically, even with the exception that you can take and immidiate reaction after an enemy enters a square.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blackbrrd, post: 4954570, member: 63962"] "What good is readying for something and then not be prepared enough to act on it until after the fact? The readying creature is taking the risk of the trigger not occuring and time being wasted, the reward for taking the risk should be his, not the other creature's." If ready actions are Immidiate Interrupts, you can have two medium sized creatures, one of them has an at-will power that lets him shift after doing an attack. This creature readies the attack. The other creatures attacks it, he attacks back before the attack resolves and the first monsters attack doesn't have a valid target and does nothing. The attacking creature can't react in any way to the ready action, since he can't take immidiate actions on anothers turn... It would be nearly impossible for the attacking creature to attack the readying creature. To sum it up: ready actions as Immidiate Reactions makes sense mechanically, even with the exception that you can take and immidiate reaction after an enemy enters a square. [/QUOTE]

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