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The ready action lets you prepare to take an action later, after your turn is over but before your next one has begun. Readying is a standard action. It does not provoke an attack of opportunity (though the action that you ready might do so).
Readying is a standard action; you only get a single standard action in a round. The attack action is also a standard action so you cannot ready an action and attack. You can ready a standard action, a move action or a free action, but to ready the action in the first place is a standard action.
So, on 12 PC C can ready an action, when he does so he declares what action and the trigger. Since he is last the turn ends after he completes his turn. On the new turn if any character performs the triggering action, he can take his readied action. When he does so his initiative is adjusted to just before the character that triggered the ready action. That is his new initiative from that point on. He does not get an action that round nor can he do anything else in the first round. He could have done something in the first round before he readied the action as long as it was a move action, free action, swift action or an immediate action. But once he readied the action, he can no longer act in that turn except to use the readied action if the appropriate trigger occurs. If the trigger does not come up before his original initiative he can take his normal actions, including readying another action.
This is specifically directed in what happens to his turn in the second round, if he uses ready to ready an attack, and the trigger occurs in the second round.
What happens to the second round turn. Does using a ready in round 1, and triggering in round 2, prevent him from doing anything but the action readied in round 1, making his second turn (with a full set of actions) take place on round 3?Sorry if my phrasing made it seems as though i was asking whether or not he can attack and ready on the same round/turn