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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6906604" data-attributes="member: 6799649">I'm afraid you are factually incorrect here.The 5E 'Ready' action is an Action In Combat. You do everything needed to execute the action except 'pull the trigger' as it were.If that were not the case, then Readied spells would work differently than how the Ready action describes.In the 5E Ready action, if you want to Ready a spell then: it takes your concentration (even if it doesn't usually require concentration), because you are concentrating on maintaining a spell you have already cast, and the spell slot is already used even if you don't actually release the spell. Why? Because you already cast it!If the Ready action didn't work that way but instead works like you assert (you haven't actually taken the action until you use your reaction to release it), then a readied spell would not use up a spell slot if it was never released, and there would be no spell to concentrate on.The way you see it resembles 'Delay', not 'Ready'. And there is no 'Delay' action in 5E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6906604, member: 6799649"] I'm afraid you are factually incorrect here. The 5E 'Ready' action [B]is[/B] an Action In Combat. You do everything needed to execute the action [I]except[/I] 'pull the trigger' as it were. If that were not the case, then Readied spells would work differently than how the Ready action describes. In the 5E Ready action, if you want to Ready a spell then: it takes your concentration (even if it doesn't usually require concentration), [I]because you are concentrating on maintaining a spell you have [B]already[/B] cast[/I], and the spell slot is already used [I]even if you don't actually release the spell[/I]. Why? [I]Because you already cast it![/I] If the Ready action didn't work that way but instead works like you assert (you haven't actually taken the action until you use your reaction to release it), then a readied spell would not use up a spell slot if it was never released, and there would be no spell to concentrate [I]on[/I]. The way you see it resembles 'Delay', not 'Ready'. And there is no 'Delay' action in 5E. [/QUOTE]

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