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do the items that require / mention the Magic action easily outnumber the ones that cast a spell? I doubt that, in which case ‘usually’ would be an odd choice of words for this unless it also covered the ones casting spells

it delays your actual action, the one it tells you to choose to actually perform. As I said, you could place its description in the other actions and things would be exactly the same, all that changed is that there is no stand-alone Ready paragraph. The only way in which it is like an action is...

It is listed under actions, I do not argue that it is not mentioned there. I am saying it is so different from the others that I cannot see it as one of them, but only as a summary for how to delay any of the other actions and not as an action in itself. Call it a should if you want to, I...

I have a different answer to your second question... to me it is sufficiently different to be its own thing, and just placed near the 'other' actions for convenience

on its own, probably not, but when you add the Hiding / Invisible rules... ;)

Each action but Ready does one thing instantly, Ready does 'all the actions' but at a later time. It has a lot less in common with the other actions than those have with each other. That they all do different things does not change that and is expected (why have two actions that do the same...

The adventure book is the same book for 5e and ToV, the world book with subclasses, monsters, etc. will be different for the two. That is why there are two bundles and the world book is available separately, in case you want both world books. there is a bundle, outside of that, no. That is the...

nailed it...

alright, not contradicted by the text then. I would have preferred them to say 'use the Magic action' rather than 'cast as normal', makes the whole thing clear and the issue go away..

yeah, small oversight that leads to all of this. At other places it does tell you that you cast spells with the duration of an action via the Magic action

except for the Magic action, you do that one right away during your turn and just delay the release of the result until the trigger occurs Ready is a meta-action that delays (part of) the actual action until the reaction occurs as far as I am concerned they did so to save some space, not...

it’s putting the text for how to do it in one place instead of repeating much of it under the other actions, and they placed that summary where it thematically belongs All other actions do things, this one tells you how to do the thing at a different time, it is a different category, and that...

it’s just shorthand for ‘specify a trigger to use the action as a reaction to’, it changes nothing about how it works I grant you separate entry and rules, but those rules tell you to chose the other action you actually want to perform and a trigger to cause you to perform it. You can remove...

I consider it an important distinction, the Ready meta-action describes how to turn another action of your choice into your reaction. That is all it does, it is not an action itself. You could get rid of it and handle that case under each individual action and nothing would change. This just...

the difference is that for other actions the entire action is delayed and might be wasted if the trigger does not happen, while the Magic action happens immediately and only the release of the spell is delayed. This is done to align the results for all delays, that is the underlying action is...