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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8146410" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Yes. They can always take the Ready action with their (normal) action, to do anything they could do with their action with their reaction after a stated trigger. That trigger and action combo certainly qualifies, given that it is one of the ones people most commonly ready (usually when someone doesn't know for sure the target is going to get violent yet, but here it works in the middle of combat as well). Readying their action has no effect on what they do with the special haste action, which they can then use to make an attack. If both the Haste action attack and the reaction attack are taken, if both hit, and if the conditions enabling sneak attack damage are in effect at both times then the Rogue can squeeze a second set of sneak attack damage into the same round.The major downsides are that if the reaction doesn't trigger then the action is lost, if it does trigger but there is no longer a source of advantage, an ally within 5 feet, or some other condition that enables sneak attack at the earliest moment the trigger comes then the attack won't get sneak attack, and that the Rogue will have to use a reaction they may very much wish they had for Uncanny Dodge a moment later. There is also the possibility that whomever is concentrating on the Haste spell will lose concentration in the intervening turns and the Rogue will be immobilized when their held action triggers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8146410, member: 6988941"] Yes. They can always take the Ready action with their (normal) action, to do anything they could do with their action with their reaction after a stated trigger. That trigger and action combo certainly qualifies, given that it is one of the ones people most commonly ready (usually when someone doesn't know for sure the target is going to get violent yet, but here it works in the middle of combat as well). Readying their action has no effect on what they do with the special haste action, which they can then use to make an attack. If both the Haste action attack and the reaction attack are taken, if both hit, and if the conditions enabling sneak attack damage are in effect at both times then the Rogue can squeeze a second set of sneak attack damage into the same round. The major downsides are that if the reaction doesn't trigger then the action is lost, if it does trigger but there is no longer a source of advantage, an ally within 5 feet, or some other condition that enables sneak attack at the earliest moment the trigger comes then the attack won't get sneak attack, and that the Rogue will have to use a reaction they may very much wish they had for Uncanny Dodge a moment later. There is also the possibility that whomever is concentrating on the Haste spell will lose concentration in the intervening turns and the Rogue will be immobilized when their held action triggers. [/QUOTE]

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