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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 2586973" data-attributes="member: 5890">1. You can't ready out of combat.2. You CAN ready for... just about anything. In fact if the DM starts with the "no, you can't ready for 'if they don't surrender/back off' or 'if they take a hostile action'", then players would be well advised to ready for when anyone moves the slightest bit, since you can pass up the opportunity to take your readied action - specifically "Then, any time before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition."I don't think the PC needs to do even that. He can just ready for the situation, and if it doesn't occur, he doesn't get his go.Additionally - I rule that if everyone in a combat is readying or delaying, then COMBAT IS OVER. Which means all readied actions go to nothing, and the first hostile action will again trigger an initiative roll.I don't know where you get this from. SU abilities are every bit as interruptable as a spell or SLA, assuming they actually take an action to perform. Most don't. In any case, a banshee wail is most likely an SLA, and certainly takes a standard action.The banshee starts wailing, and in some fraction of a second, someone with a readied action realises that this is no ordinary wail, and strikes. And misses, or hits, or whatever the dice say.All of this is conducive to a style of play which means the characters don't just immediately assault every monster they meet. And I think that's what most DMs would like, isn't it?</blockquote>

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