Summoned creatures and readied actions


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So, my munchkin player insists in that, since a summoned creature does not have a turn as such, and it is limited to take a maximum of two actions *per turn* (not per round), then his wizard may use an action to concentrate and give the creature two actions, then ready a concentrate action with any trivial trigger, thus giving the creature two additional actions that round.

This would work by strictly following RAW, since the readied action takes place in someone else's turn. However, it could not apply to minions, since they *do* have their own turn.

I believe this is just nastily taking advantage of the extremely poor wording of the Rulebook, but being it a playtest, I am trying to follow RAW as closely as possible. What do you people think?

In addition, he claims that the multiattack penalty for the summoned creature would not be carried on to those additional two actions. According to RAW, your multiattack penalty resets at the end of your turn, the exception being when you ready an attack action. In this case, the summoned creature does not have a turn, and it is not the one readying an action. Anyway, it seems to me just straightforward commonsense that the penalty should be carried on (assuming the situation were even possible, of course).


True! I do not know how I missed it, since I checked the summoned condition. That solves it: having a turn, it cannot act out of its turn (since it cannot take reactions).

Thank you!

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