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<blockquote data-quote="Mr.Binx" data-source="post: 295302" data-attributes="member: 4691">np.&nbsp; <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=":)" />Well, you're not always trying to impede an action.&nbsp; Sometimes you may want to help some action.&nbsp; Say I ready an action to open a door when a fellow party member is about to come in contact with it as he does a full run.&nbsp; This allows me to take a partial action during my friend's turn to open the door and allow him to continue his full run movement through the door after my partial action has been resolved.&nbsp; This could happen when an invisible wizard opened a door for a half-dead rogue so that he could tumble away from the minotaur barbarian that was beating him senseless, full-run through a hallway of manned murder-holes, and out of the line of fire of those murder holes by taking a 90 degree turn granted by Fleet of Foot (S&amp;S feat) to run around the corner at the end of the hall.&nbsp; The archers on the other side had delayed their actions so they would get their full allotment of attacks against who-ever opened the door and the majority would have had full line of fire on the poor rogue.&nbsp; So had the wizard opened the door on his action then the archers could have decided to take their delayed turns as soon as his action was over.&nbsp; Since it was still the rogue's action and they had delayed, the wizard's readied action saved the rogue's life for a few more moments.&nbsp; The way you're seeing can still be applicable by switching semantics: in this case you would be trying to STOP the rogue BEFORE he runs head first into the door.&nbsp; How's that?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr.Binx, post: 295302, member: 4691"] np. :) Well, you're not always trying to impede an action. Sometimes you may want to help some action. Say I ready an action to open a door when a fellow party member is about to come in contact with it as he does a full run. This allows me to take a partial action [i]during[/i] my friend's turn to open the door and allow him to continue his full run movement through the door after my partial action has been resolved. This could happen when an invisible wizard opened a door for a half-dead rogue so that he could tumble away from the minotaur barbarian that was beating him senseless, full-run through a hallway of manned murder-holes, and out of the line of fire of those murder holes by taking a 90 degree turn granted by [i]Fleet of Foot[/i] (S&S feat) to run around the corner at the end of the hall. The archers on the other side had delayed their actions so they would get their full allotment of attacks against who-ever opened the door and the majority would have had full line of fire on the poor rogue. So had the wizard opened the door on his action then the archers could have decided to take their delayed turns as soon as his action was over. Since it was still the rogue's action and they had delayed, the wizard's readied action saved the rogue's life for a few more moments. The way you're seeing can still be applicable by switching semantics: in this case you would be trying to [i]STOP[/i] the rogue [i]BEFORE[/i] he runs head first into the door. How's that? ;) [/QUOTE]

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