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<blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 686378" data-attributes="member: 6469">Err... no... you'd be the one not 'getting it'... but anyway...You know, the rules don't, and shouldn't, apply to every single situation. They are guidelines to be adapted to circumstance.I mean, you say you're in combat, ok, fine, that takes care of those examples I gave but what about the billion other situations which crop up where it would be justified to say someone has a readied action?The one I'm thinking of in particular is what spurred this question in the first place. The PC's enter a room and are gathered before two people sitting in chairs. Another person stands to the side of the two. Three invisible rogues are aiming crossbows at the PC's. They have 'readied' actions that should anyone attack the two seated individuals, they fire upon the aggressor.Now nobody is in combat until someone initiates it however I feel it's entirely justified to say that the rogues get their shots off before the aggressor has even managed to finish drawing their weapon.Now it can't be surprise either since that too would indicate a readied action anyway since you're allowing them to go first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DDK, post: 686378, member: 6469"] Err... no... you'd be the one not 'getting it'... but anyway... You know, the rules don't, and shouldn't, apply to every single situation. They are guidelines to be adapted to circumstance. I mean, you say you're in combat, ok, fine, that takes care of those examples I gave but what about the billion other situations which crop up where it would be justified to say someone has a readied action? The one I'm thinking of in particular is what spurred this question in the first place. The PC's enter a room and are gathered before two people sitting in chairs. Another person stands to the side of the two. Three invisible rogues are aiming crossbows at the PC's. They have 'readied' actions that should anyone attack the two seated individuals, they fire upon the aggressor. Now nobody is in combat until someone initiates it however I feel it's entirely justified to say that the rogues get their shots off before the aggressor has even managed to finish drawing their weapon. Now it can't be surprise either since that too would indicate a readied action anyway since you're allowing them to go first. [/QUOTE]

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