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<blockquote data-quote="Zorku" data-source="post: 6799482" data-attributes="member: 6799940">You started out with some nice language but then you had to go and muddy the water by acting like I'd actually run it like that in every setting.So flaw here comes when you try to extrapolate back from the ready action to normal spells. Your cause and effect relationship doesn't exist anywhere except in the ready action where the caster is specifically concentrating on the energy for their reaction. Instead I'm going to rewrite your sentence.If it can work this way, then think about how a readied EB would work. The warlock would complete the verbal component (&quot;Fire one... fire two... fire three... fire four!&quot;) during their action, holding back the energy of each beam before any beams were shot, (dropping an entire clause here,) and then use their reaction to release the 'effect' (the beams) into the world.The way you wrote it originally was more of an argument against readying spells at all.I don't see your point here. Was somebody confused that we don't track initiative and the action economy when we're not in combat? &quot;Sorry, you already spent your action ordering ale. You'll have to wait for everyone else to state that they're sitting around before you have another action you can use to seduce the barmaid. In the meantime you could move up to 30 feet.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zorku, post: 6799482, member: 6799940"] You started out with some nice language but then you had to go and muddy the water by acting like I'd actually run it like that in every setting. So flaw here comes when you try to extrapolate back from the ready action to normal spells. Your cause and effect relationship doesn't exist anywhere except in the ready action where the caster is specifically concentrating on the energy for their reaction. Instead I'm going to rewrite your sentence. If it can work this way, then think about how a readied EB would work. The warlock would complete the verbal component ("Fire one... fire two... fire three... fire four!") during their action, holding back the energy of each beam before any beams were shot, (dropping an entire clause here,) and then use their reaction to release the 'effect' (the beams) into the world. The way you wrote it originally was more of an argument against readying spells at all. I don't see your point here. Was somebody confused that we don't track initiative and the action economy when we're not in combat? "Sorry, you already spent your action ordering ale. You'll have to wait for everyone else to state that they're sitting around before you have another action you can use to seduce the barmaid. In the meantime you could move up to 30 feet." [/QUOTE]

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