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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melba Toast" data-source="post: 6631164" data-attributes="member: 80591">(polite note: apologies if this thread appears more than once. The quick thread feature doesn't seem to be working at the moment)Can the Ready Action result in a character getting 2 attacks in a round?Consider this scenario.We have 2 PCs: Sworddude and Axechick, and they are fighting a gang of orcs.Sworddude rolls a 7 for initiative. Axechick rolls a 12 for initiative. The Orcs roll 10 initiative.Sworddude and Axechick have partial cover behind a boulder so they want to wait for the orcs to come to them.So... first round:12 Axechick: I ready, my trigger is the orc moving into melee range.10 Orcs: The orcs hesitate. Gather. Move into formation.7 Sworddude: I ready action too, same trigger,  but I'm taunting them with insults in Orcish: "Your mother was an elf! etc etc".(DM rolls a CHA check to see if the orcs are sufficiently enraged. They are.)Round two:12 Axechick: Continues to ready10: Orcs charge! Axechick's attack is triggered and she takes her attack. But wait! Sworddude is still readied from last round, so he gets to attack too! Then the orcs attack. This is all happening simultaneously. 7: Sworddude attacks again! Its his new initiative right? And he gets another attack, right? This happened in my game the other day and it caused a huge blow up. Axechick couldn't understand why Sworddude should get two attacks that round while she only got one, and Axechick felt she was being punished for having a higher initiative.It makes sense to me, but the players weren't having it. Axechick was going to get another attack at the top of the next round anyway.Have I misunderstood something? Am I not playing ready action right?</blockquote>

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