| Kyle Knight |
After a recent session an interesting rules point came up about delay.
For simplicity sake I have reduced the player numbers just to the interested parties.
In the initiative count we have
Player 1 23 Dex bouns +2
Player 2 15 Dex bouns +3
Enemy 1 15 Dex bouns +1
Enemy 2 15 Dex bouns +1
So, player 1 wants to delay until player 2 takes their action and then act.
Player 2 acts, so player 1 says I would like to act now, not knowing when the enemy is about to act, but DM tells player 2 they act on initiative 14.
As far as I can tell according to the rules, “By choosing to delay, you take no action and then act normally on whatever initiative count you decide to act.”
So player 1 should act on initiative count 15 after player 2 and act before enemy 1 and 2 as their initiative bonus is greater.
Am I reading this right?