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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spectacle" data-source="post: 6774265" data-attributes="member: 6780410">The rules are not very restrictive about what you can choose as a trigger, so it sounds like it should be possible to do readied actions like "if he launches an eldritch blast, then I shoot him" to interrupt after the first EB of a multi blast, or "if he lifts his sword, I shoot him" to interrupt a melee attack before the actual strike. Neither of these readied actions would be particularly troublesome to resolve in game, so I suspect it is intentional that the Ready Action rules specify that the readied action goes off after the trigger rather than the triggering action. This still doesn't let you dispel an instantaneous spell like Eldritch Blast or Fireball by readying Dispel Magic with a trigger that happens halfway through the spellcasting process, since instantaneous spells explicitly cannot be dispelled.</blockquote>