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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2036352" data-attributes="member: 198">I personally don't think that's necessary, but I do think that many players unfortunately get hung up on names in the rules. Often enough, the name of an ability is simply a flavorful one and/or refers to one of a few possible takes on it. A fighter with the Iron Will feat doesn't usually end up with a Will save which fits the name, but &quot;Moderately Improving Your Will&quot; would have been a lousy name for a feat <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Since the original poster has been answered and the thread has been well and truly hijacked, here's a question for everyone - how specific do you require players to be in saying that they are readying a spear against a charge? Does the player have to say &quot;I am readying my spear against a charge&quot;, in which case any attackers who move up without charging aren't affected (other than by AoOs as appropriate)? Or can the player say &quot;I'm readying my spear to attack the first person who comes into range&quot;, and if that target happens to be charging, the PC gets the double damage for readying (but is out of luck if the first target isn't charging and a subsequent one is)?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 2036352, member: 198"] I personally don't think that's necessary, but I do think that many players unfortunately get hung up on names in the rules. Often enough, the name of an ability is simply a flavorful one and/or refers to one of a few possible takes on it. A fighter with the Iron Will feat doesn't usually end up with a Will save which fits the name, but "Moderately Improving Your Will" would have been a lousy name for a feat :) Since the original poster has been answered and the thread has been well and truly hijacked, here's a question for everyone - how specific do you require players to be in saying that they are readying a spear against a charge? Does the player have to say "I am readying my spear against a charge", in which case any attackers who move up without charging aren't affected (other than by AoOs as appropriate)? Or can the player say "I'm readying my spear to attack the first person who comes into range", and if that target happens to be charging, the PC gets the double damage for readying (but is out of luck if the first target isn't charging and a subsequent one is)? [/QUOTE]

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