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Message: <blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 6722456" data-attributes="member: 6777696">The restrictions on the caster are stricter. If your concentration is broken, you lose the spell, meaning the chance to act, and you lose the spell slot. If the fighter gets hit before his trigger goes off, he can still take his readied action, up until the point at which he's knocked unconscious.The difference is that the Wizard's action is a single, discrete action, whereas the fighter's action consists of multiple sub-actions. (The extra attacks.) How would you "fairly" restrict the caster (beyond the restriction of concentration, which isn't placed on the fighter)? Would you say, "when readying an action, cantrips do not scale with level and spells cannot be cast in a higher level spell slot." What about high level spells? Now the Wizard has the burden of concentration and a super gamey damage reduction on top of it.The round is a span of time. Over that time, you can take your action. When a character readies an action, they are effectively counting out rest beats. When they could be in there, swinging and slashing, they are holding, and waiting for their moment. Presumably because there is some advantage to doing so. The Wizard does the same thing, but the spell is actually cast on initiative, and then held through those rest beats until the opportunity presents itself to release. That's why the restriction on the fighter is "less stuff" and the restriction on the wizard is "concentration, loss of spell slot". They're different restrictions, but they both have their consequences. They both make sense narratively. And how often do you see Wizards "winning" combat through the use of readied spells?</blockquote>

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