D&D 5E I am not ready to ready the ready action...

[hastur_nz]

I'd probably see it used about once every session or two, on average. It's usually the more tactically minded players that use it.

Personally I used it last time I was in the DM chair... Cloud Giant has picked up an unconscious PC (one of two); he dangles the dying PC over the edge of a huge drop and says to the other two PC's, something like, "OK, let's discuss, or this one dies"... I then readied an action to drop the PC if anyone attacked the giant. Of course, you can probably guess what happened next.... said player is creating a new PC.

 

[Riley37]

I'd probably see it used about once every session or two, on average. It's usually the more tactically minded players that use it.

Personally I used it last time I was in the DM chair... Cloud Giant has picked up an unconscious PC (one of two); he dangles the dying PC over the edge of a huge drop and says to the other two PC's, something like, "OK, let's discuss, or this one dies"... I then readied an action to drop the PC if anyone attacked the giant. Of course, you can probably guess what happened next.... said player is creating a new PC.

Off topic: did that player have any opinions, about the choices of fellow players and choices of fellow PCs?

 

[hastur_nz]

Off topic: did that player have any opinions, about the choices of fellow players and choices of fellow PCs?

No, he was ready to change PC's anyway; it has his girlfriend who tried to save him, but that's another story and was a moment of comedy, followed by a moment of role-play as the Tortle flew a mile through the air, trying to roll a 20 and open her eyes for one final time so she could try and see her homeland. FWIW I'm planning to remind my players that I don't care about what some people might call "meta-gaming", as not just here but a couple of times earlier I look back and feel that it was too much "everyone sits around waiting for their turn", instead of a more co-operative approach to a tough fight.

Anyway, the moral of that story is that different play styles don't always line up too well - for example I'm pretty sure it's only about half the people I know who would ever even really think of using a Readied action, others just prefer a more direct / simple approach.