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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6765638" data-attributes="member: 82106">This is perfectly valid by RAW and there's no clear cut reason to disallow it. Lets analyze it from an action economy standpoint:The PC sacs his standard action to ready an action to attack in reaction to an incoming attack. He could have JUST ATTACKED, so in the general case he's actually WORSE off doing this readying. He may avoid some sort of immediate action, or possible gain some other advantage using this tactic, but its just a tactic like any other. It isn't 'broken', any more than concentrating your fire on one enemy is 'broken'. Now, there's a question here: What EXACTLY is the trigger? The rules are a bit unclear on just how precise a trigger must be. Can you say "when one of those monsters over there targets me with an attack"? Maybe, maybe not. You can CERTAINLY say "when Orc #3 targets me with an attack", but the other way might conceivably produce some other advantage. Even then though I don't really see it as being a serious issue. Maybe in theory there's some way to abuse this, the rules are complex and there are a lot of weird corner-cases, but I seriously doubt its going to be a some big huge cheese. If it is then you drag the player off in a corner and talk it out.</blockquote>