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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 9761392" data-attributes="member: 6802765">Despite my overall agreement with [USER=7030563]@ECMO3[/USER] concerning Action Surge and the Ready Action, I concur with you on this sub-point. I'd allow the practical example you provided, but my understanding is that we'd disagree on whether the caster is taking (a) both the Ready Action and the Magic Action on their turn, plus a Reaction on the Archer's turn or (b) only the Ready Action on their turn plus a Reaction on the Archer's turn.(I do see room for someone to argue that the Command spell interacts awkwardly with the Ready action given that "Approach" command is arguably part of casting the spell rather than releasing the energy, but that would be an entirely separate issue.)While I think there's plenty of room to feel the Improved War Magic exception to the Action Surge restriction is more or less thematically appropriate than the Ready Action exception, I think that's entirely a question of subjective personal taste. My point is that Improved War Magic shows that the new prohibition against casting via Action Surge has existing (and noncontroversial) exceptions, which I think greatly undermines any argument that when deciding between competing readings of the text of the Ready Action we should choose one that prevents casting via Action Surge. Improved War Magic demonstrates that the rule against casting via Action Surge is not sacrosanct, and the Ready Action could easily be another such exception.</blockquote>

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