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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 2222550" data-attributes="member: 545">I would like to clarify a point.  I never forbid "combat related" actions.  If a creature thinks there is going to be a fight soon, they are welcome to cast all the spells, drink all the potions, etc. that they would like.One of the things I am against is what I view as gaming the Initiative system while there is no combat taking place.  It boils down to a kind of metagaming.  Creatures do not have Readied Actions outside of Initiative.  They have actions.  They have intentions.  Readied Actions cause enough confusion within a strict Initiative system; abusing the concept outside of combat is guaranteed to yield haphazard results.  (And by "combat" I do not necessary mean fighting, but at least the plausible potential for fighting or some other kind of conflict.)I would also point out that the usage of the phrase "unaware that combat is about to start" here as a description of my position is a bit odd because one can logically be both "aware that combat is about to start" and "unaware" according the the definitions given by KarinsDad and the RAW.  My position does not confound these two ideas.</blockquote>