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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaotic Archon" data-source="post: 4529110" data-attributes="member: 21828">The following three scenarios came up and I was unable to find anything really clear about how the following situations should work according to the rules (we had player discussion both supporting and discounting the actions):To set the first two up, let's use the following initiative order:Party Member 1MEParty Member 2Party Member 3MonstersParty Member 41.  I use power X that grants a penalty or bonus until the end of my next turn (lance of faith for example).  If I choose to delay my action until after Party Member 3 goes, then Party Member 2 gets to take advantage of that penalty/bonus a 2nd time and then I get to act before the monsters again.2.  Assume the exact same scenario as 1, but instead of delaying, I ready an action to attack with the trigger "after party member 2 attacks this creature".Is it within the rules to grant this bonus twice?  Until I cross the initiative threshold of the monsters, I could conceivably double my granted penalties/bonuses for most of my abilities.The phb says that your turn is over when you've taken all your actions.  Does readying an action count as taking all your actions?  If it does NOT count, then until my action triggers (if at all), the previous 2 examples would be in effect.  If it does count, then the following scenario is then valid (assuming they both follow the same rules):A monster blinds me.  I get a save at the end of my next turn.  During my turn I move 3 squares, and then ready an action with the trigger "If my blindness wears off, I shoot a lance of faith at monster X".  Since readying the action effectively ended my turn, I make my save against blindness.  If I succeed, my readied action then triggers and I attack as normal.  In a blindness situation where my target has moved, there's no way I'll make the required perception check to THEN target them at -5 to hit.  By doing it 'the readied action way', I've given myself a 55% chance of negating the penalty.Thank you for looking into this <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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