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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6764330" data-attributes="member: 42582">I am not an expert on Readied actions in 4e - they come up in my game only occasionally.That said, the single most important thing about a Readied action is that it is a reaction - so it takes effect after whatever action triggered it.That raises the question of "what is a triggering action"? The example in the 4e PHB makes it clear that any part of movement itself counts as an action for Readying purposes; so "actions" for readying purposes aren't coextensive with "actions" for action economy purposes.That said, it seems to me both as a matter of ingame logic and keeping things under control balance-wise that a trigger should be something that the PC can plausibly respond to. This might vary with class, skills, tier of play etc (eg a 1st level fighter can't probably ready a bow shot at anyone trying to read his/her mind; a 21st level psion, though, probably can). But I don't think it includes "targetting with an attack" as anything distinct from the attack being declared, targets assigned, and attack and damage rolled.To give an example of what I think would be permissible (and extrapolates the logic of the PHB example): if your player declares as a Readied action "I attack anyone who targets me with an attack" then if an enemy used Twin Strike, and the first attack was made against your player's PC, then your player could respond with his/her Readied attack before the attacking enemy got to make the second attack of its Twin Strike. That's a type of interruption, but it's not literally an Immediate Interrupt, and is probably not quite the power up your player is hoping for. (Which, to reiterate, I think is not allowed by the rules of the game.)</blockquote>

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