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Readying an Action: from the PRD
You can take a 5-foot step as part of your readied action, but only if you don't otherwise move any distance during the round.
Initiative Consequences of Readying: Your initiative result becomes the count on which you took the readied action. If you come to your next action and have not yet performed your readied action, you don't get to take the readied action (though you can ready the same action again). If you take your readied action in the next round, before your regular turn comes up, your initiative count rises to that new point in the order of battle, and you do not get your regular action that round.
This came up in another thread and didn't wanna risk derailing it.
Can you ready an action to move if someone comes up and attacks you?
If you can- what are the ramifications for the attacker?
The rule says:
"Assuming he is still capable of doing so, he continues his actions once you complete your readied action."
So
Archer Andy readies a move action vs Bob the Barbarian taking a swing at him.
Bob does a single move up to Andy and takes a swing.
Andy steps back.
Bob.. does what?
can Bob finish his move (assuming he has movement left to get in range of Andy) and take a swing anyway?
Is Bob stuck where he's at, unable to do anything else since he was interrupted by the readied action?
Can Andy even ready an action vs getting attacked- or can he only do it vs getting closed in on?
(I don't see any rule against it- but thought I'd throw it out there anyway)
How does this play out?
-S
I say you can of course and while at lower levels this could come in handy by level 6 your losing on two attacks or your spell for the turn just to play keep away. It should also be noted that your movement still provokes if its based on waiting til they are adjacent meaning Bob might still get a swing at you if you don't just 5ft step.
Also Bob is attack so he might have to change method. IE throwing something or activating his lunge feat but he might still have a way to attack.
With Bob not capable of doing his action though- what are his new options?
1) anything he can do with the movement he has left?
2) attack if he can but if not stand there like a lump?
Since the "move" happens befor the attack the attack doesn't actually happen. couldn't he just.. move (up to the rest of his move) and swing anyway (assuming he could close the distance anyway)
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I would allow him to finish the movement if he had any left and even attack a new target(though i think this part would be more of a house rule.) if he could either reach one or one was ajacent to andy when he ran.
I don't necessarily disagree- i'm just trying to get it all hammered out.
Since you interrupt the action before it happens then technically Bob hasn't stopped his movement yet.
If it were actions in tandem then bob runs up and andy runs back before bob stops moving so.. bob has the rest of his movement to go.
since its happening before he attacks (he effectively never attacks at all) wouldn't he automatically get to choose to use the rest of his movement?
It'd be like if he moved 20 feet, stopped for a moment, then chose to move the next 10 or do something else.
Since the RA happens before the actual action that spawns it- this seems like a valid way to go.
(similar to how you can't trip a prone person standing up.. because your trip happens before they try to stand, so effectively it never happens at all- a non action.)
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I feel for sure that you could still take an attack even if you went from swinging your Axe to realizing he was just beyond reach and hurling it at the archer.
Right thats what I'm meaning I might not let you keep chasing but I'll let you throw your axe at the coward.
I think you should be able to ready an action to move between when the foe stops and when he attacks. Of course, if he's within reach of you by this point, you'll provoke an AoO. But readying to stab him and then 5 ft step back (you can 5 ft step as part of a readied action if you have not moved on your turn) so you are out of reach before he can attack would be valid. I've used that very tactic many times. Never fails to piss off the NPC. :)
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You can complete the attack, so if you can throw your weapon you can do that, or if you have quickdraw and a throwable weapon or a weapon with reach you can use that. You can't draw a weapon with the "free drawing during movement if you have BAB +1" rule as your movement has ended. For the same reason you can't move the extra feet to get in range and then attack, as your first move action has been used.
If there was another target in rage after the movement the attacker could easily change the target of his attack.
It would work very well against charging attackers as you can move laterally, negating their charge, and, as AnarchialOne said, you can ready an action to attack before the enemy and then do a 5' step.
As a houserule I would allow the attacker to convert his attack in a second move action but not in a standard action (substantially I would allow him to "do something", but he would have a less useful kind of action available) and only if the initial set of actions was move+attack, not if it was a full round action like a charge.
RAW a charge is a problem as: "Charge: Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action. Charging, however, carries tight restrictions on how you can move." so your readied action happen before he act, so before he start his charge. But if it happen before he charge you can't make a readied attack and so you wouldn't be interrupting his action, so he would be making the attack that will trigger the readied action that .... :P
I feel that a guy charging his committing himself heavily so so I would not allow him to convert hid attack to another action, but I would allow him to attack another target (without the charge bonus) if it was in range at the time of the readied action.