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Rules-As-Written, you can't catch an arrow that is aimed at another
Your quoted text is pretty explicit about it, you have to be the target and you have to get hit in order to use the feature, that means if the attacker misses, you can't use Deflect Missiles.
On the Readied Action question, it wouldn't work either. Two things:
Deflect Missiles is a ...
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You were right!
In that type of situation, everyone is ready to begin fighting at any moment. Everyone basically is 'readying' for their fight - not just the PCs.
Readied Actions
These actions do require a trigger to be specifically stated, as well as the action they will take if triggered. In a general situation, most Readied Actions take place during ...
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The contentious part of this question is the trigger for the Readied Action
The relevant rule for setting the trigger for a Readied Action is as follows:
When the trigger occurs, you can either take your reaction right after the trigger finishes or ignore the trigger. (PHB p. 193)
Xanathar's Guide to Everything elaborates further:
If you’re unsure when a ...
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No
The 'Extra Attack' feature is worded so you only benefit from it when you attack in your turn.
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn
Reacting to something is not in your turn, it's in the turn of the triggering creature.
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No
Two reasons. First of all, RAW doesn't mention any effects of the spell being effective while it is being held. There's no fire before the spell is actually released.
The more significant reason is that you can't hold a spell indefinitely; any readied action will be lost at the beginning of the character's next turn. See the Player's Handbook Errata:
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Silence does nothing to a readied disintegrate
When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs.
The disintegrate has already been fully cast and its power held. All the components have already been performed including any verbal components which silence could have disrupted (...
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Yes you can Ready an action you currently cannot do
The rules for Readying say:
First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your speed in response to it.
Readying doesn't involve doing anything at all at the time that you Ready....
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That sounds like a reasonable use of Ready.
Here's the relevant rules text (my emphasis):
First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your speed in response to it.
A character can (usually, see below) perceive when another ...
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Yes, readying a spell behind full cover would prevent counterspell
Counterspell depends on sight and a clear path to the target
Counterspell has a casting time of:
1 reaction, which you take when you see a creature within 60 feet of
you casting a spell
That means that an opposing spellcaster must be able to see the intended counterspell target. ...
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There's nothing in the Ready action description that would prevent readying Disengage. When you ready an action you:
decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose
to move up to your speed in response to it.
The perceivable circumstance is that the ...
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Your Turn
On your turn, you can move and perform an action. The ready action is, as you point out, an action like any other. This means that on your turn you can move and take the ready action.
The Ready Action
The ready action allows you to react to a specific, "perceivable circumstance."
To do so, you can take the Ready action on your turn so ...
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No, you can't do that. Purely mechanical events like "at the end of my turn" or "before your turn" are not legal triggers (PHB, p. 193, emphasis mine):
Ready
[…] First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction.
That means that only things that your character could perceive make for legal triggers.
So, say we have two PCs ...
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The action you described is not really a readied action. It's more like a "colorful" Dodge Action.
Either dodge or a readied action will cost one action - they are equivalent in game mechanics. If the player wants this to be a readied action, there's no reason to correct them on the term.
Disguising the Dodge action as a readied action
You can indulge ...
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Yes, but you can only act on one of them
Action Surge allows you to:
take one additional action on top of your regular action
There are no restrictions on what you can do with this action, so taking the Ready action qualifies.
Taking the Ready action spends one action but there is nothing preventing the use of a second action to take another one on the ...
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No, because the Ready Action requires you to cast the spell as normal and then hold it, releasing it with your reaction later.
You are using your action to cast the spell on your turn.
PHB pg. 193 under Ready, emphasis mine:
When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which you release with your reaction when the trigger occurs.
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answered Dec 18 '18 at 1:46
Lino Frank Ciaralli
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There are no explicit rules for this, but what has worked for me and my table is to describe, briefly, what it looks like.
E.g. "The Kobold waits, weapon drawn, and looking at you."
With my group, this is often enough of a clue as to what the creature has prepared. If not, I would allow a character to use Insight to figure out more detail, such as whether ...
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Your example is somewhat flawed. If Bob readies an action to attack Alice as soon as she's within reach, and then moves within reach, it's just a normal move/attack sequence. No Readying is necessary, in which case Alice resolves her readied attack as soon as Bob is within reach and then Bob acts.
Let's go with another example.
Alice has the best ...
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Yes, and they don't need to ready an action to do it
Say their movement is 30ft. They expend their movement for 30ft, use their action to Dash for an extra 30ft, then Bonus action to Dash again with an additional 30ft.
90ft in total - triple their base movement
Here's a question that covers Dashing twice on the same round:
Can you dash twice on the same ...
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Yes
Nothing in the ready or opportunity attack rules suggest that they're mutually exclusive beyond using one's reaction, which is only used when actually making the opportunity attack or taking the readied action. Therefore, you can forgo the option to use the readied fireball to make an opportunity attack if you wish and circumstances permit.
Using one's ...
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Yes, you do
The Readied action doesn't trigger until after your trigger completes:
When the trigger occurs, you can either take your reaction right after the trigger finishes or ignore the trigger.
When you ready a spell, you are concentrating on that spell as you hold it (PHB, 193)
When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold its energy, which ...
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The Basic rules call out two situations where a Concentration check is required to cast a spell: the caster takes damage and...
The spell is Readied but not yet cast (p.72)
The spell has a cast time longer than one action (p.79)
There is no specific rule that I have seen for interrupting spells which can be cast in a single Action, and this seems to be ...
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The recently released Player's Handbook Errata clarifies this:
Ready (p. 193). You have until the start of your next turn to use a readied action.
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You can prepare Dispel Magic to instantly dispel whatever spell a spellcaster casts. However, this will not "counter" their spell, rather, it will dispel it as soon as they cast it. So any spell with a duration of Instantaneous will be unaffected. This will only end the ongoing effects of spells which create ongoing effects.
This is not at all the ...
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The rules for Multiattack in the Monster Manual (page 11) are perfectly clear:
A creature that can make multiple attacks on its
turn has the Multiattack ability. A creature can’t use
Multiattack when making an opportunity attack, which
must be a single melee attack.
Or, in other words, it works exactly the same way as Extra Attack, and can't be ...
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You can ready one attack without breaking invisibility, but not a spell.
Readying an action allows you to use your action to act outside of your turn. This allows you to ready an attack action which you will execute later. Once you do execute it, you will have made an attack and will break invisibility. Note that it doesn't matter if you make your attack ...
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It does not work, but not for the reason you think
Two concentrations
Readying a spell needs concentration, so your readied Blade Ward end the moment you start casting Haste (which also needs concentration).
As soon as you start casting a spell or using a special ability that requires concentration, your concentration on another effect ends instantly.
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The wizard can't Ready a spell before combat begins
The wizard can cast spells during her first round, but she can't release a readied spell before her first round because she can't Ready a spell before combat begins.
As Jeremy Crawford clarified:
The options, including Ready, in the "Actions in Combat" section (PH, 192–93) are meant to be used in ...
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Yes.
Your inference, that Targeting is part of Casting and therefore can't be done at time of effect, is a little tenuous. And, given the examples for readying a spell, it seems likely that the intent is to let you target it on release:
When you ready a spell, you cast it as normal but hold
its energy, which you release with your reaction when
the trigger ...
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Yes you can.
The Ready action is what you're looking for. It's explained on p.192 of the player's handbook.
First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction.
For you this would be, "If anything nasty comes towards me"
Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your ...
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What are the basic limitations for using a Reaction to move? Does movement used on your Turn matter?
You can't take both Dash and Ready actions
Normally you don't "prepare a reaction". You take the Ready action instead. See Player's Handbook, page 193, "Actions in Combat"
Sometimes you want to get the jump on a foe or wait for
a particular circumstance before you act. To do so, you
can take the Ready action on your turn so that you can
act later ...
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