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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7333308" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>It happens much less often than you’d think (note, you’re declaring, “I Attack with my longsword,” not, “I Attack that orc right there.” Or, “I cast Fireball,” not, “I cast Fireball centered on this space here.” And if this is still a concern, there’s an easy workaround: pick one specific action that players can take instead of their declared action if the declared action is no longer possible, or if the changing circumstances make it no longer desirable. Dash is a common choice for this, as is Disengage. Personally, I like using Ready for this. That way if you said, “I Attack with my longsword,” but on your turn there’s no enemies within the range of your movement to attack, you can say “Well, I’ll move here abs Ready to Attack the first hostile creature to come within 5 feet of me.” Technically this is abusable by declaring an action with the fastest speed modifier so you can go first and then Readying a slower action that you actually wanted to take, but you’re basically giving up your Reaction to do so, which is a fair trade in my book.</p></blockquote><p></p>