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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9755715" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I disagree with the folks saying this is not in the spirit of the rule. Using the Ready action to cast a spell as a Reaction is a lot worse than using the Magic action to cast a spell in a lot of ways. The most obvious is that it uses up your reaction, so you don’t have it available to make opportunity attacks or whatever else. But moreover, the Ready action requires a specific trigger for you to use the Reaction in response to, and if that trigger doesn’t happen before the end of your next turn, your action, and the spell slot, is wasted. As well, when you Ready a spell, you have to maintain concentration from the point  you took the ready action until the point you cast the spell. That means if you were concentrating on an ongoing spell, you have to drop that spell to perform this maneuver, and then you’re vulnerable to having your concentration disrupted, and losing the spell you wanted to cast anyway. Giving heroic inspiration for coming up with this technique does seem weird to me. I don’t know why you would want to do that. But, I would certainly allow the technique. I would also have any intelligent monsters try to disrupt the caster’s concentration with ranged attacks before moving any closer. But it would probably be pretty effective against mindless or animalistic opponents who wouldn’t be able to put such a counter-strategy together.</blockquote>

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