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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1441346" data-attributes="member: 13654">No.  You can ready a standard action.  If you want to move as that action then you move.  When your action is triggered it becomes your turn, adjusting your initiative from what it was to just prior to that of the trigger.  Look at it this way: on your turn you sacrifice some of your privalege to act NOW in order to set a trigger for a specific, standard action later instead.  The trigger occurs.  You adjust your initiative to fit prior to the initiative of the currently acting character and it becomes your turn.  You take your single, standard action.  It becomes their turn again so that they can finish what they started - if they WANT to and still can do so - but there's nothing then preventing that caster from deciding to cast defensively instead of normally.When it's your turn you decide what to do NOW, you are not committed to doing what you declared last round or the like.  She doesn't even have to cast standing right there - she can take a 5' step back and cast rather than doing so defenisively.  She can turn and flee.  She can do whatever she wants to do NOW.Well, if you do it as you stated you CAN'T attack her immediately anyway - you ready ONE standard action.  You can move, you can attack.  Either is a standard action, but you can't do both.  If she is then foolish enough to stand her ground and cast normally - AoO away to your hearts content.You don't get to attack him either.  You moved and readied a move.  That's it for you in that round unless and until your readied action is triggered.  Then you take your readied move.  You get no attacks at that point unless an AoO comes along AFTER you've done your readied move.</blockquote>

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