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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 2586509" data-attributes="member: 1225">Saying they can't ready an attack &quot;if they don't back away&quot; is trivially handled; the PC just tells the foe &quot;Back off, or else&quot;, and then declares that they, &quot;Ready an attack if they do anything but back away&quot; (or &quot;anything but back away or parley&quot;, maybe). If the target does nothing, the readied attack doesn't go off; then, since the target chose not to act, the ready PC's next turn comes up, and they then choose to attack (or to re-Ready, maybe). In this particular case, with the PCs unable to tell that the scream that was just starting was an attack, and the scream being a Supernatural power (IIRC) and thus not interruptable (as opposed to a spell or SLA), I would have let the banshee's scream &amp; the players' attacks all go off at once, essentially simultaneously. It would be possible for everybody to get killed -- the PCs blow their saves, the banshee takes too much damage, and they kill each other off. Not necessarily purely RAW, but it makes sense to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 2586509, member: 1225"] Saying they can't ready an attack "if they don't back away" is trivially handled; the PC just tells the foe "Back off, or else", and then declares that they, "Ready an attack if they do anything but back away" (or "anything but back away or parley", maybe). If the target does nothing, the readied attack doesn't go off; then, since the target chose not to act, the ready PC's next turn comes up, and they then choose to attack (or to re-Ready, maybe). In this particular case, with the PCs unable to tell that the scream that was just starting was an attack, and the scream being a Supernatural power (IIRC) and thus not interruptable (as opposed to a spell or SLA), I would have let the banshee's scream & the players' attacks all go off at once, essentially simultaneously. It would be possible for everybody to get killed -- the PCs blow their saves, the banshee takes too much damage, and they kill each other off. Not necessarily purely RAW, but it makes sense to me. [/QUOTE]

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