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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7418147" data-attributes="member: 996">Good call.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Sometimes, complexity is the price of simplicity.  They clearly wanted to avoid your initiative order changing in combat, so no Delay, and Ready uses your Reaction.  Simple, right?  ... Heh.  ;| And you give up any other use of your already precious Reaction.  Ready is marginal at best, as well as oddly complicated for trying to be simple.  But, you have to think:  'who uses ready?'  Characters who don't have anything worthwhile to do on their turn.  The normally-melee character with every foe too far out of range.  The character who can't see any foes (because they're all invisible or hidden or whatever).  The character with nothing that can affect any of the currently target-able enemies for some transient reason.  Etc...In other words, ready is there to give the guy with no options a bad alternative, so he can't claim he's useless and just indignantly stalk away from your table, never to return, but he's still just as screwed as you intended him to be when you set up the situation.Yep, even the stuff that seems dumb or pointless is all about DM Empowerment.  ;P Seriously, though, yes, Ready has gotten used now and then.  Like any other action declaration, I use judgement in resolving it rather than sticking to any real or imagined RAW.  So if a player wanted to ready an attack or grapple or whatnot to 'interrupt' a spell being cast, or get in the way of an attack or whatever he feels it's important/useful to do with some timing rather than right now, he can make the attempt.It's not worth telling them about, though, honestly.  If a player declares an action that Readying would help resolve, use it - explain it in that context - and move on after, no different than any other ruling for being loosely based on an existing, complicated/problematic rule.</blockquote>

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