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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BenjaminPey" data-source="post: 9760670" data-attributes="member: 7039344">You do make sense [USER=6779196]@Charlaquin[/USER]But here's why I think it's rules-lawyery: it doesn't in any way concern itself with the fiction. Its only concern is the rules. You cast it as normal, meaning your character makes the same moves, says the same words, as if you were taking a Magic action. It's the exact same thing in the fiction. You're just waiting a bit for the release. And if you can't do all this stuff as a Magic Action, then you can't do all this stuff as a Ready Action either, because both describe the exact same thing in the fiction. So, to me, that's just playing the rules, not the game. Not the fiction. Hence, the rules-lawyery thing.The chosen trigger is the capper: "when the ennemy move" will obviously happen, as they don't even have a way to know what trigger you've chosen, because this does'nt exist for them, in the fiction. So it's really just a way to circumvent a rule relying on nomenclature, the oh so subtle difference between the exact same thing taken as an action or as a readied action.Choose another trigger and I would maybe change my mind. Something that exists, maybe? Like saying "Don't move or I'll fry you all?" Then there's something added. Then there's some game in there, some interesting things happening for everybody. Then it's not so rules-lawyery.</blockquote>