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Aug 10, 2011 -- 4:13PM, Tichrimo wrote:

Mind you, you can counter with a bit of cheese -- since your readied action goes off on the enemy's turn, he can't OA you: ready a full move action, not a shift.  Unless he's super-mobile, you'll likely be able to get far enough away.  (Keep in mind that other enemies can still OA you as normal, just not the triggering enemy.)

Not cheesy in the slightest.  You lose your attack, and the tradeoff is the chance of him losing his attack if he chooses to attack you?  Fair deal.

That's a perfectly acceptable tradeoff, mechanically, and so I can't call it "cheese".

Nov 19, 2011 -- 4:52PM, dorpond wrote:

Whew, 22 pages.. So let me see if I got this right,

1. I can ready a move when someone moves up to me to attack, and it:
 A. Doesn't disrupt their full movement. In other words, if a foe moved 2 squares up to me, and that triggered my 5' step, the foe can continue that movement after my triggered ready, thus he can finish his move, and move another square and attack me.

Yes.  But don't use "5' Step" - that's a D20 term, and it will confuse you.

You have Readied an action.  This action can be anything - but in this case, there is "Shift" which is "one square, does not provoke Opportunity Actions" or "Move" which is "Move my Speed".  You could also Run, which is "Move my Speed +2, taking a -5 on all attack rolls and granting Combat Advantage until the start of my next turn".  Of you could Ready any other Move Action.  You could Ready a Charge.  You could Ready a power that lets you move, attack, move, attack, move.

When the trigger you set for your Readied Action arrives ("the enemy steps into a square adjacent to me!") your Readied Action triggers.    After the trigger (his step adjacent) but before anything else he does (moving further, attacking you, whatever), you take your entire Readied Action, start to finish.  Once your Readied Action is over, his action resumes.

Nov 19, 2011 -- 4:52PM, dorpond wrote:

 B. if I readied a run instead of a 5' square, I can run when that foe moves up to me and a run won't provoke an opportunity attack.

The run *will* provoke an OA, but creatures cannot take OAs on their own turn.

So anyone else can take the shot at you, but not the triggering creature.  It's an important distinction:  You *do* provoke an OA, but he can't take an OA.

Nov 19, 2011 -- 4:52PM, dorpond wrote:

 C. If the foe was charging me, and I readied a move, the move take place before the attack, but if the foe had more movement left, he can finish the charge, get closer, and get that charge attack in.

That is correct.  If you move to where he *can't* reach you with his remaining movement, his Charge will fizzle.  However, you will be Reacting to one step of his movement, which will Interrupt *everything* else from his action, and that means that once your action is done his action will resume where it left off.

Nov 19, 2011 -- 4:52PM, dorpond wrote:

If this is correct, is this a community agreement or official?

This is how the rules actually, officially, definitely work.  There are sometimes people who disagree, but those people are wrong, because this is not an interpretation and it requires no judgement calls.  This is exactly what the rules in the book say and there is no other valid way to interpret those wordings.

Dec 31, 2011 -- 12:21PM, Ravidell_the_Black wrote:

I read somewhere at sometime that a DM could move all the monsters (on their initiative) at the same time, then make attacks for them as appropriate.  Would this be legal?  As I understand it, each monster on initiative count X would be moving, then essentially readying/delaying their action until the rest of them finished moving. 

The answer is the same as the first time you asked it.