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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6788668" data-attributes="member: 61529">The point of the readied action is to let you do a thing at a time when doing it gives you some advantage over just doing it on your turn. It's supposed to provide an advantage, in exchange for the significant chance that it won't happen at all. And while it's true that it's not &quot;the cast a spell action&quot;, the readied action text does say &quot;you cast the spell as normal&quot;, which seems pretty clear to me. (Huh, interesting question; if you ready a spell while standing next to someone with mage slayer, do they take their attack on your turn, when you &quot;cast the spell as normal&quot;, or do they take it only after you release the magic, if you do?)The reason I bring up the holding of an instantaneous spell is that it creates a case in which the spell has already been &quot;cast&quot;, the slot is used up, the magic has been summoned and spent, and yet, the magic has not yet taken effect and dissipated. And normally instantaneous spells don't have that state; either it's not yet been cast, or it's been cast and has taken effect and dissipated. With the sequential-attacks, we still have the spell there for, at most, the duration of a person's turn. Readied actions let us have the spell in that intermediate state for several player's turns.I don't see anything which unambiguously states that you can't hold the spell for more than one round. I also don't see anything which unambiguously states that you can. There's nothing saying that the spell dissipates if you don't use it during that turn, but there's also nothing saying you can continue to hold it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seebs, post: 6788668, member: 61529"] The point of the readied action is to let you do a thing at a time when doing it gives you some advantage over just doing it on your turn. It's supposed to provide an advantage, in exchange for the significant chance that it won't happen at all. And while it's true that it's not "the cast a spell action", the readied action text does say "you cast the spell as normal", which seems pretty clear to me. (Huh, interesting question; if you ready a spell while standing next to someone with mage slayer, do they take their attack on your turn, when you "cast the spell as normal", or do they take it only after you release the magic, if you do?) The reason I bring up the holding of an instantaneous spell is that it creates a case in which the spell has already been "cast", the slot is used up, the magic has been summoned and spent, and yet, the magic has not yet taken effect and dissipated. And normally instantaneous spells don't have that state; either it's not yet been cast, or it's been cast and has taken effect and dissipated. With the sequential-attacks, we still have the spell there for, at most, the duration of a person's turn. Readied actions let us have the spell in that intermediate state for several player's turns. I don't see anything which unambiguously states that you can't hold the spell for more than one round. I also don't see anything which unambiguously states that you can. There's nothing saying that the spell dissipates if you don't use it during that turn, but there's also nothing saying you can continue to hold it. [/QUOTE]

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