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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6160310" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwiki.php?title=d20%20Modern:d20%20Modern%20System%20Reference%20Document&redirect=no" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/d20_mod_srd_small.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[h=2]COMBAT[/h]      [h=3]SPECIAL INITIATIVE ACTIONS[/h]  Usually a character acts as soon as he or she can in combat, but  sometimes a character wants to act later, at a better time, or in  response to the actions of someone else. [h=5]Delay[/h] By choosing to delay, the character takes no action and then acts  normally at whatever point in the initiative count the character decides  to act. When a character delays, he or she voluntarily reduces his or  her own initiative result for the rest of the combat. When the  character’s new, lower initiative count comes up later in the same  round, the character can act normally. The character can specify this  new initiative result or just wait until some time later in the round  and act then, thus fixing the character’s new initiative count at that  point. A character cannot interrupt anyone’s action with a delayed action (as a character can with a readied action; see below). [h=5]Delaying Limits[/h] The longest a character can delay before taking an action is until  after everyone else has acted in the round. At that point, the delaying  character must act or else forfeit any action in that round. If multiple characters are delaying, the one with the highest  initiative modifier (or highest Dexterity, in case of a tie) has the  advantage. If two or more delaying characters both want to act on the  same initiative count, the one with the highest initiative modifier gets  to go first. If two or more delaying characters are trying to go after  one another, the one with the highest initiative modifier gets to go  last; the others must go first or lose their action for the round. If a character loses an action due to delaying, he or she may act on  any count on the next turn. Again, the character cannot interrupt an  action. [h=5]Ready[/h] The ready action lets a character prepare to take an action later, to  interrupt another character. Essentially, the character splits his or  her action, taking the move action on the character’s initiative count  and the attack action at a later point. On the character’s turn, he or  she prepares to take an action later, if a specific trigger is met.  Then, later in the round, if the readied action is triggered, the  character takes it, acting before the triggering action. Readying does not provoke an attack of opportunity. (The character’s  move action, and the attack action he or she readies, may both provoke  attacks of opportunity normally.) [h=5]Readying an Action[/h] A character can ready an attack action or a move action. To do so,  the character specifies the action he or she will take and the  conditions under which the character will take it.  Then, any time  before the character’s next action, the character may take the readied  attack action in response to those conditions. The readied action occurs  just before the event that triggers it. If the trigger is part of  another character’s actions, the readied action interrupts the other  character. The other character continues his or her actions once the  readied action is completed. The character’s initiative count changes. For the rest of the  encounter, it is the count on which the character took the readied  action, and the character acts immediately ahead of the character whose  action triggered the readied action. A character can take a 5-foot step as part of his or her readied  action, but only if the character didn’t otherwise move any distance  during the round. If the character comes to his or her next action and has not yet  performed the readied action, the character doesn’t get to take the  readied action (though the character can ready the same action again).  If the character takes his or her readied action in the next round,  before his or her regular turn comes up, the character’s initiative  count rises to that new point in the order of battle, and he or she does  not get your regular action that round.</blockquote>

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