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1 year ago ::
Mar 16, 2012 - 1:44PM
#231
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Alright.
So, in theory if I wanted to be mean, I could make 6 creatures all trigger an action to shoot all at the same time if an enemy were to walk through the door?
I mean, in theory, if I had 6 creatures, they all took their turns, and that was their triggered action, then that could legally happen?
Seems harsh!
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1 year ago ::
Mar 16, 2012 - 1:48PM
#232
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Alright.
So, in theory if I wanted to be mean, I could make 6 creatures all trigger an action to shoot all at the same time if an enemy were to walk through the door?
I mean, in theory, if I had 6 creatures, they all took their turns, and that was their triggered action, then that could legally happen?
Seems harsh!
That's totally legal. Of course, what's ALSO totally legal is for your party to say "6 creatures are keeping themselves out of this combat if we don't run through that door? SCORE! You guys keep doing that, we're going to kill the rest of the encounter without you."
So it's fair!
(If you're talking about "before combat starts", then you can't Ready An Action before combat starts. What you're looking for is, mechanically, a surprise round, which CAN work the same way but uses rules that make sense outside combat)
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1 year ago ::
Mar 16, 2012 - 3:44PM
#233
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Mar 11, 2012
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Could you in a surprise round?
And if you're aware of monsters, but they are unaware of you, would that consider the start of combat?
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1 year ago ::
Mar 16, 2012 - 3:56PM
#234
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Could you in a surprise round?
You *could* Ready an action during the surprise round, but why?
It's pretty much always better to act.
And if you're aware of monsters, but they are unaware of you, would that consider the start of combat?
Combat starts whenever people start taking combat actions. As long as nobody's attacking, and one side isn't even aware of the other, there's no combat.
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1 year ago ::
May 23, 2012 - 1:17PM
#235
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It surely have been discussed but I missed the page.
After executing the readied actions, you change your initiative before the event that triggered the action. So in some way, it can be use to get a higher initiative that at the beginning of the fight.
e.g. : Monster A rolled initiative 25 and player 1 only 10, At his initiative, player 1 ready his action (like when Monster attacks me, I'll use power XXX against him). So if the trigger is met, player 1 will play in the future in initiative 26 (as it s before the event), right? Or is it 25 but before Monster A ?
And if there are others creatures playing at 25 (or 26), how determine who should play first? The higest bonus of initiative first ?
Or no matter what is hte initiative bonus of player 1, he will always plays before Monster A and the other creatures will determine their orders as usual (higher bonus of initiative first).
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1 year ago ::
May 23, 2012 - 3:03PM
#236
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You go directly before whoever's turn it is when your action goes off. Initiative only matters on round 1, after that it is just an order, so there is no real benefit.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 20, 2012 - 2:46AM
#237
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Can you continue with other actions after you have completed your readied action? i.e. you start your turn, you take a standard action to ready an action. Do you then declare turn over? I think yes, as that is the difference between delaying and readying an action. Then the trigger occurs, you take your readied action. Can you then use a free action to use an action point?
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12 months ago ::
Jun 20, 2012 - 5:26AM
#238
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Can you continue with other actions after you have completed your readied action? i.e. you start your turn, you take a standard action to ready an action. Do you then declare turn over? I think yes, as that is the difference between delaying and readying an action. Then the trigger occurs, you take your readied action. Can you then use a free action to use an action point?
No, because you can only spend action points on your own turn and a readied action goes off on someone else's turn.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 20, 2012 - 1:41PM
#239
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Can you continue with other actions after you have completed your readied action? i.e. you start your turn, you take a standard action to ready an action. Do you then declare turn over? I think yes, as that is the difference between delaying and readying an action. Then the trigger occurs, you take your readied action. Can you then use a free action to use an action point?
You can continue with your move/minor after you ready... seems silly, but you can. The difference between delaying and readying is you have to delay your whole turn, readying you use your Standard on your turn to ready.
No, you can only spent APs on your turn.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 20, 2012 - 1:53PM
#240
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I'm pretty sure your turn ends as soon as you ready an action. Also, I think the question was about using unused actions after the readied action goes off.
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