Questions tagged [readied-action]
For questions about readied actions. A readied action is an action "held" to react to an anticipated circumstance.
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Can my familiar hold an action to deliver Cure Wounds to me when I drop to less than 1 HP?
In D&D 5e, the Find Familiar spell allows a wizard to cast spells with a range of touch through their familiar:
"Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can ...
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Can you Ready a Bonus Action (2024)?
The Ready action allows you to act out of your turn using a Reaction:
You take the Ready action ... on your turn, which lets you act by taking a Reaction before the start of your next turn. ... you ...
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Time stop and ready action
A spellcaster casts a Time stop that lasts 5 rounds (he knows how many rounds of time stop he has) and proceeds to buff himself for 4 rounds. He then does the "ready action" standard action ...
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Is it possible to cast a bonus action spell and then use the Ready action to activate a magic item and cast another spell off-turn with your reaction?
I know the spellcasting rules must be followed when using a Magic Item that allows you to cast a spell. For example, with the Wand of Fireballs, we typically see statements like, emphasis mine:
you ...
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Readied action with more than one trigger
I saw someone's post about readying spells to cast them as a reaction. Can you have several triggers for this?
Example: "I ready a casting of magic missile to fire on the goblin hidden behind the ...
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What happens if a Storm Sorcerer is knocked unconscious before casting the spell from Tempestuous Magic?
The Storm Sorcery sorcerer subclass, from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, has the Tempestous Magic feature:
Tempestous Magic
Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to cause ...
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Can I ready actions to evade an opponent?
Can a player ready a standard action and a move action to the effect that they constantly move out of reach of an advancing opponent?
Say a PC has a 50ft land speed, and a monster has a 30ft land ...
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Can you hold Plane Shift on an unwilling creature until they touch you to skip the melee spell attack?
One of my players uses the Plane Shift spell quite regularly in battle to get rid of unwanted opponents.
With the ready action and the holding of a spell being a thing, the question has come up, ...
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5e Combat economy and darkness
Here's the plan, and I think it's possible..
Move close to my ally Bobby
Bonus action use Metamagic to cast Quickened Spell Darkness on my dagger's blade (or a tennis ball, doesn't matter)
Free ...
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Ready Action and Bonus Action [closed]
In our weekly game we had a pretty typical question about a ready action, reaction and bonus action.
I was DM and here is how it starte.
The players decided to explore some ruins. As they explored, ...
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Can you make an attack with a crossbow and then prepare a reaction attack using action surge without the crossbow expert feat?
As far as I can tell no one has asked this question before, so forgive me if they have.
This also assumes the character here does not have an extra attack, so they are probably level 2 or 3 in ...
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Would it be unbalanced to allow Extra Attack on a ready action?
The rules for D&D 5e clearly state that Extra Attack can only be used on the character's turn:
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action ...
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Does a summoned creature act immediately after being summoned by a readied action?
I have a player that wanted to use a spell to summon a creature if the person in front of him did something hostile using its ready action.
After doing so, he wanted to attack immediately... But it's ...
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Ready action to use the action part of a spell like Maximilian’s Earthen Grasp or Call Lightning
To ready spells for a trigger to occur, concentrations is required.
But if you have already casts spells like Maximilian’s Earthen Grasp or Call Lightning, can you ready the "action" part of ...
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Readying Empty Body as an action in response to an attack
Empty Body states that as an action you can spend 4 ki points to become invisible. I understand this puts the monk under the invisible condition which means the monk is heavily obscured, resistant to ...
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