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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 4025941" data-attributes="member: 9789">Thank you for that excellent explanation.  That is exactly how I feel as well; I completely agree.  I think that interpretation is precisely what I will use.The only counter-point I could even come up with is that since casting a scroll is a standard action... but I honestly don't even care.  I like what you said better.  <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=":)" />Lord Zardoz, Hyp, et al:  I'll explain again how I see the "always stay next to someone with a readied action" routine; please feel free to point out if I'm interpreting anything incorrectly.First, our only asumption:  both Xaxos and Bob (from now on: X and B) move at the same speed, or B has a greater move than X.  (If X moves faster than B, then this hypothetical situation will not work.)Note:  X is the caster, B is the silencer.round 1- B gets close, readies action to silence- X casts, triggers B's action; X takes remaining move action to move out of range of the spell (but has no more actions)round 2- B moves next to X, readies action to move with- X moves, triggers B's action to move with; X and B are now at the same spot; X takes a 2nd move action and moves away (and out of spell's range)round 3- goto round 2In this example, X -will- be able to leave the silenced area each round, but never with enough action left over to cast a spell (unless that spell is a swift or immediate action).  B will always move with X, and X will never move far enough away to escape.Again, though, anything that allows X to fool B's ability to follow him - or if he just flat out runs - will ruin this tactic.(If "readies an action to move with" is not a good enough way to say that, it could be worded so that B would move to X as soon as X has taken a move action to move away.  That way, no matter how far X moved using a single move action, before he could cast B would interupt his action and move to him.  But I am honestly not concerned about the minutia of how someone could "ready an action to follow" someone else, because it seems fair enough that it could be done.)</blockquote>

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