Does taking an attack of opportunity or immediate action prevent you from taking a readied action?


Rules Questions


So say you're readying an action to counter a spell or something and some guy moves through your threatened area can you take the AoO and still counter the spell? How about take an immediate action like cast Stone Shield?


Why would it? Nothing in the readied action section says that you are prohibited from taking those kinds of actions.


Nope.


thorin001 wrote:
Why would it? Nothing in the readied action section says that you are prohibited from taking those kinds of actions.

Something a GM told me, not sure where he got it from.


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The only time an AoO or immediate action will keep you from completing a readied action would be if the AoO or immediate action would prevent the trigger conditions of the readied action.


thorin001 wrote:
Why would it? Nothing in the readied action section says that you are prohibited from taking those kinds of actions.

It depends on how you interpret the rules.

Quote:
Readying an Action: You can ready a standard action, a move action, a swift action, or a free action. To do so, specify the action you will take and the conditions under which you will take it. Then, anytime before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition. The action occurs just before the action that triggers it. If the triggered action is part of another character's activities, you interrupt the other character. Assuming he is still capable of doing so, he continues his actions once you complete your readied action. Your initiative result changes. For the rest of the encounter, your initiative result is the count on which you took the readied action, and you act immediately ahead of the character whose action triggered your readied action.

Some read the bolded part as meaning "before your next turn", while others take it literally as "before your next action". For those that interpret it literally it would mean that any action whatsoever, including an immediate action, would spoil the ready action as the ready action did not occur before your next action.

Either way you interpret the wording, an attack of opportunity is not an action, and does not prevent your ready action from happening.


Nope. you're all good.

Makes charging someone with a braced polearm a REAALY bad idea.

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