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Message: <blockquote data-quote="despair" data-source="post: 4594161" data-attributes="member: 81252">First of all, hi everyone, this is my first post here.Sorry if this has been asked before.Reading the rules, i assume that ongoing damage is not applied immediately, e.g. at the same time as the normal attack damage is applied, but rather is first applied at the start of the target's next turn.If that is the case, how does that work with a readied action?exampleMy wizard's party is confronting a white dragon.The dragon has cover behind a ledge.My wizard readies an attack, acid arrow, with the dragon's movement as a trigger: as soon as the dragon leaves the cover, the acid arrow is triggered.The dragon turn starts.It flies off the ledge. After it has done the first square of movement, the acid arrow triggers.I roll the attack and hit.I do 6 damage from the attack, but do not yet apply the ongoing damage since the dragon's turn had already started.The dragon ends its turn, rolls its save, and thus the ongoing damage ends.So in effect, it never takes the ongoing damage, something that wouldn't happen had the acid arrow not beed cast as a readied action.My DM ruled that it effectively wouldn't take the ongoing damage if he saved on the readied action turn, arguing that this would balance the player's advantage of taking an immediate action in its turn. But he reserved to better check the rules later.To resolve that, is it correct to assume that since the ongoing damage has not yet been applied, he's not yet entitled to a save against it, not until after it would be first applied on his next turn?</blockquote>

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