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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2585779" data-attributes="member: 7240">Thanks for responding, guys. I have some devil's advocate responses for your well thought-out answers. I'd be interested in further feedback.I'm surprised by this. Does that mean that a group of warriors waiting to be charged by their opponents can't ready an action against the charge because combat has not started yet?Initiative had not been rolled. But to look a little more seriously at this, doesn't that mean that during a parley with a creature who might turn on the party at any moment, it is impossible to ready an action against an expected attack?Again, playing devil's advocate here, what if the only potential threat is the banshee?What about readying against an "anything but" action like in cop shows when a character has a gun pointed at another, "one false move and..." It seems to me that in those situations, doing anything other than standing still or talking provokes a readied action. By your argument, the cop could ready against the suspect running away or pulling a gun but not both.Again, using the example of the police officer with the gun, isn't this, again, standard practice: "If you don't drop the weapon/get down on your knees/back away from the fuse/whatever, I'll shoot."But what if they can inflict enough damage to kill the banshee in one round? According to the rules, readied actions always interrupt the action that sets them off.I recommended the Know (Religion) idea to my friend for understanding the scream to be a standard action at all. Because talking is a free action that can take place during others' initiatives and the scream is not physically distinguishable from it until after the fact, this does seem like a sustainable argument to me. However, it is clear that, because of the way the rules are written that if the scream is recognized the actions go off before it takes place.</blockquote>

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