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<blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 6239189" data-attributes="member: 6695890">Not quite, as I read the rules. (And hey, I'm just being a busybody here since I'm not in the game, just watching it ;-) )Everyone has a reaction that can be used to act outside their turn. There are standard things that can be done with a reaction such as opportunity attacks. Some class features (and probably racial and feat features) provide you with additional uses for your reaction, but you still only get one per turn.Using the ready action creates another use for your reaction just like any other. Every use if reactions has a trigger, and you define one when you take the ready action. Outside your turn, should any trigger for a reaction occur, you can choose to spend your reaction and do the relevant thing. So you can make an opportunity attack with a readied action - or cast the shield spell. But if you do one of those, you've spent your reaction and can't use your readied action if the trigger come up later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ccooke, post: 6239189, member: 6695890"] Not quite, as I read the rules. (And hey, I'm just being a busybody here since I'm not in the game, just watching it ;-) ) Everyone has a reaction that can be used to act outside their turn. There are standard things that can be done with a reaction such as opportunity attacks. Some class features (and probably racial and feat features) provide you with additional uses for your reaction, but you still only get one per turn. Using the ready action creates another use for your reaction just like any other. Every use if reactions has a trigger, and you define one when you take the ready action. Outside your turn, should any trigger for a reaction occur, you can choose to spend your reaction and do the relevant thing. So you can make an opportunity attack with a readied action - or cast the shield spell. But if you do one of those, you've spent your reaction and can't use your readied action if the trigger come up later. [/QUOTE]

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