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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7942968" data-attributes="member: 58197">Readying comes with an immense cost for most PCs. The rogue is a really bad example because that's the one class that can Ready with relatively little penalty. But any martial class sacrifices 50% of its damage to ready an attack (because you can't use Extra Attack with a readied action). Spellcasters who ready must sacrifice any active concentration spells and risk losing the spell slot if they take damage before the trigger. On top of all that, you give up your chance to use a reaction; no opportunity attacks, no Riposte, no shield. 5E really, really pushes everyone except rogues* to act in initiative order as rolled.*And even rogues do still incur the cost of giving up their reaction. That means no Uncanny Dodge, which is one of the rogue's most potent defenses, and no chance of using an out-of-turn attack to get double Sneak Attack. It's not nearly as bad as what martials and casters suffer, but it ain't nothing.</blockquote>