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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr.Binx" data-source="post: 295378" data-attributes="member: 4691">Ok, now it gets worse.  Here's another scenario, albeit just as unlikely, that describes a bit more than the last:--------------------You are a sorceror and are with a second sorceror (hereafter to be reffered to as sorceror#2).  You, Sorceror#2, and both familiars are all mindlinked so you can all communicate telepathically.  Sorceror#2 is in a 10ft by 10ft room with 2 goblins.  You are standing outside the door to this room in an adjacent 5ft wide, 10ft long room.  You have arcane locked the door so you are the only one who can open it.  Sorceror#2 and his familiar which sits on his shoulder are both immune to fire so Sorceror#2 is going to fill the room with his very last spell: a fireball.  Both goblins are rogues though so they have a good chance of evading the spell.  Both goblins go on last initiative.  On your initiative you ready an action to open the door when sorceror#2's familiar lets out a screech.   Sorceror#2's familiar readies an action to let out a screech immediately after Sorceror#2 casts a fireball.  Your familiar has readied an action to close the door with a Ring of Telekinesis that you have equipped him with as soon as sorceror#2 passes through the doorway.   On sorceror#2's action he successfully combat casts a fireball and drops one of the goblins.  His familiar immediately lets out a screech as per it's readied action since it is now immediately after the fireball has been cast.  Since the the screech triggers your readied action you reticently open the door.  Sorceror#2, who hasn't finished his entire turn yet, finishes up his actions by moving 5ft through the door.  Since Sorceror#2 has now moved through the door that event triggers your familiars readied action and it uses the Ring of Telekinesis to quickly close the door.  It's now the remaining goblin's turn so he decides to fume and beat on the door in rage.--------------------Pardon the absurdness of the scenario, but we are dealing with fantasy after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Now in this example, the majority of the readied actions are happening in the middle of Sorceror#2's turn.  The readied actions are not all necessarily happening before a specified event (because they haven't happened yet) but they are happening immediately when a pre-specified condition has been met whether or not it happens to be in the middle of someone else's actions.  Essentially time stops when the triggering condition is met and does not begin flowing again until the subsequent pre-specified partial action has been performed.</blockquote>

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