Timeline for When and how does combat start in a standoff?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:23 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 11, 2019 at 17:44 | history | edited | Wyrmwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2017 at 20:32 | history | edited | Wyrmwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add link to other answer and general "rules of thumb"
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| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | JBC |
No, they said it ahead of time. Most of the players told me they'd shoot if the enemies made any sudden moves. After a couple minutes [...] It's clear from that quote there was a temporal gap between when they readied an action and when combat eventually began.
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| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:14 | comment | added | Chris Boucher | The way I read the question, it sounded less like the DM allowed the players to ready actions then denied them their actions, and more like the players declared that they had silently readied actions when the combat-starting event (the misfired crossbow) triggered initiative | |
| Jun 14, 2017 at 22:07 | history | answered | Wyrmwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |