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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 294901" data-attributes="member: 111">When is your intiative?  It's supposed to change to just before the person who triggered youir action.  I'd make this be a "delay" instead since you are not tiggering off an enemy's action.  You have nothing to act before in this case, and, if you did, you be acting BEFORE the lightning.  Delay is what you uise to react AFTER some event.Is the villian trying to stop the baby from crying, or reacting to the cry?  If he's trying to act to just before the baby cries (seeing it about to yell, or something, I suppose), then it pretty well fits within the "Ready Action" intent - providing you've assigned an intiative to the baby - you need that for "Ready Action" to work.  If he is waiting until AFTER the baby makes the noise, then he is DELAYING.Sure, this works.  A "combatant" can certainly be attempting to escape.  Besides, this is clearly within the intent, and he shoots you just before you start running.I agree it can get silly - especially if you foget about the DELAY action.  You should remember:READY ACTION is to interrupt something - that is, to act just before that thing.DELAY is to act AFTER something.  DELAY is written loosely enough to let you act at ANY TIME - even, for example, when teh lightening goes off (though you'd probabaly want to make a common-sense ruling that only one attack happens while the lightening is happening.I get the impression that you try and use READY ACTION when you should be using DELAY - and that acts only to you disadvantage as DELAY let's you take you whole action, not just a partial action.</blockquote>

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