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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7965498" data-attributes="member: 53980">The two of you are not exactly wrong but not exactly right. What exactly can and can't be a trigger is up to the DM. Healing word has only a verbal component and only requires a bonus action. Negotiations require speech (typically). It's not unreasonable that the spell could be cast before the bandit (who likely has no grounding in magical theory) even comprehends that the cleric isn't just using an unfamiliar word.By your reasoning a legal trigger would be "when anything starts happening", but IMO that invalidates the intent of being required to declare a trigger.Let's look at another example. You've got a standoff with three guys with crossbows aimed at each other. One of them readies an action to shoot anyone who starts pulling their trigger. Seems kind of silly for them to be able to pull off their readied action before the other guy's shot goes off, because they are reacting. Unless their reflexes are superhuman, the other guy will finish pulling the trigger first. IMO, at any rate. I suppose in your games you would allow such, since you've stated as much. And I was wrong that RAW would disallow it. I don't think I would allow it though, which isn't diverging from RAW either.</blockquote>