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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4996111" data-attributes="member: 82106">Actually I don't see a problem with this example at all... The whole party would have to give up its attacks for an entire round and slip its initiative down past other enemies which presumably would be acting in the meantime on the off chance that an enemy attacks the wizard and he uses shield. I doubt it would be much of a good strategy in general. It might conceivably give some advantage in some particular tactical situation but since readying is not without cost I'm good with it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This is something in general people are forgetting to take into consideration. Ready An Action isn't free. Slipping your initiative down past other enemies gives those enemies effectively an extra action vs yourself. Its not a massive cost, but there has to be a decent reason to do it before its worthwhile. Whatever action you end up taking is no better overall than any action you could normally take. Its superiority will only be in terms of the situation at that time being better than the situation in your own turn. Add in the risk of the action never triggering and its easy to see there's nothing magically great about it. Once in a while a PC will ready, probably to let them benefit from a leader buff or to hit a monster that's kiting, etc.</blockquote>

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