Your Speed determines har far you can move using Movement during your Round which includes your Turn and the Reaction you take during someone else’s Turn. Of your Speed is 30’, the most basic ways for you to move 30’ on your Turn and someone else’s Turn is to:
1. Move 30’ on your Turn, then Ready your Action using Dash to trigger on someone else’s Turn
2. Use your Action to Dash on your turn, then Ready your Movement to trigger on someone else’s Turn.
3. Use your Bonus Action to Dash on your Turn, then Ready EITHER your Movement or Ready your Action to Dash on someone else’s Turn.
You only get one allocation of Movement per round. Like your Action, you can use it during your turn or Ready it for someone else’s Turn. If Actions were handled the same way you think Movements do, then you could take an Action on your Turn and Ready another Action on someone else’s Turn.
Another way you can look at it is that you’re (I think I understand what up2ng was saying now; but I’ll word it a little differently) ‘spending’ all your allocated movement on your turn. You ‘spend’ it on Movement on your Turn and/or Movement on your Ready Action which is also on your Turn. The Reaction that activates your Ready Action is actually what occurs in someone else’s Turn. So if your Speed allocates 30’ for your Movement, you have 30’ to ‘spend’ between Movement on your Turn and/or the Ready Action on your Turn. It is just like Readying a Spell. The Spell is actually cast on your Turn, but you release it as n somebody else’s Turn. If someone wanted to Counter Spell it, they would react to you casting it on your Turn, not when you release it on someone else’s Turn.
People would be readying Movement almost all the time if Ready gave you another allocation of Movement on someone else’s Turn.
Well Ready the Dash action effectively does nothing because this action doesn't make you move but instead let you gain extra movement for the current turn.
Speed is not a limit on the distance you can move in a round. It is the distance in feet the creature can cover when it moves on its turn.
On your turn, you can move a distance equal to your Speed or less.
Off turn you can't move unless noted otherwise. In which case the distance will be up to a specific distance or relative to your Speed score.
So for example a Rogue can take the Dash action as a Bonus Action, move up to twice its Speed, and also Ready to later move up to its Speed in response to a trigger.
Your Speed determines har far you can move using Movement during your Round which includes your Turn and the Reaction you take during someone else’s Turn. Of your Speed is 30’, the most basic ways for you to move 30’ on your Turn and someone else’s Turn is to:
1. Move 30’ on your Turn, then Ready your Action using Dash to trigger on someone else’s Turn
2. Use your Action to Dash on your turn, then Ready your Movement to trigger on someone else’s Turn.
3. Use your Bonus Action to Dash on your Turn, then Ready EITHER your Movement or Ready your Action to Dash on someone else’s Turn.
You only get one allocation of Movement per round. Like your Action, you can use it during your turn or Ready it for someone else’s Turn. If Actions were handled the same way you think Movements do, then you could take an Action on your Turn and Ready another Action on someone else’s Turn.
Another way you can look at it is that you’re (I think I understand what up2ng was saying now; but I’ll word it a little differently) ‘spending’ all your allocated movement on your turn. You ‘spend’ it on Movement on your Turn and/or Movement on your Ready Action which is also on your Turn. The Reaction that activates your Ready Action is actually what occurs in someone else’s Turn. So if your Speed allocates 30’ for your Movement, you have 30’ to ‘spend’ between Movement on your Turn and/or the Ready Action on your Turn. It is just like Readying a Spell. The Spell is actually cast on your Turn, but you release it as n somebody else’s Turn. If someone wanted to Counter Spell it, they would react to you casting it on your Turn, not when you release it on someone else’s Turn.
People would be readying Movement almost all the time if Ready gave you another allocation of Movement on someone else’s Turn.
Well Ready the Dash action effectively does nothing because this action doesn't make you move but instead let you gain extra movement for the current turn.
Speed is not a limit on the distance you can move in a round. It is the distance in feet the creature can cover when it moves on its turn.
On your turn, you can move a distance equal to your Speed or less.
Off turn you can't move unless noted otherwise. In which case the distance will be up to a specific distance or relative to your Speed score.
So for example a Rogue can take the Dash action as a Bonus Action, move up to twice its Speed, and also Ready to later move up to its Speed in response to a trigger.
Just to make sure I know exactly what you’re saying:
The Rogue with Speed 30’ can Move 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ then Ready their Dash(A) to move 30’ on someone else’s Turn, but Readying their Dash(A) means they have no Action for their Turn. So they move a total of 90’ if they make no other Action (Attack, Magic…) before their next turn. This would be the same as Move 30’/Dash(A) 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ on their turn.
What that Rogue cannot do is Attack/Move 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ and Ready another Move 30’ which gives them an Attack and 90’ of movement before their next Turn.
”Well Ready the Dash action effectively does nothing because this action doesn't make you move but instead let you gain extra movement for the current turn.”
Technically, you aren’t Readying Dash. You are Readying an Action OR a Move. The Action you Ready can be Dash. This means you can’t Ready Move AND a Dash(A). You also cannot Ready Dash(BA) because a Bonus Action is not an Action.
Just to make sure I know exactly what you’re saying:
The Rogue with Speed 30’ can Move 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ then Ready their Dash(A) to move 30’ on someone else’s Turn, but Readying their Dash(A) means they have no Action for their Turn. So they move a total of 90’ if they make no other Action (Attack, Magic…) before their next turn. This would be the same as Move 30’/Dash(A) 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ on their turn.
What that Rogue cannot do is Attack/Move 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ and Ready another Move 30’ which gives them an Attack and 90’ of movement before their next Turn.
”Well Ready the Dash action effectively does nothing because this action doesn't make you move but instead let you gain extra movement for the current turn.”
Technically, you aren’t Readying Dash. You are Readying an Action OR a Move. The Action you Ready can be Dash. This means you can’t Ready Move AND a Dash(A). You also cannot Ready Dash(BA) because a Bonus Action is not an Action.
You Ready an action or you move. If you Ready the Dash action, nothing will happen on subsequent turn, so if you want to move off turn, you instead need to Ready to move and not an action.
If a Rogue with Speed 30 feet takes the Dash action twice with his action and Bonus Action, it can effectively move up to 90 feet on his turn.
A Rogue can't take the Attack action and the Ready action without a feature like the Fighter's Action Surge for example. So it's unlikely to do so.
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Well Ready the Dash action effectively does nothing because this action doesn't make you move but instead let you gain extra movement for the current turn.
Speed is not a limit on the distance you can move in a round. It is the distance in feet the creature can cover when it moves on its turn.
On your turn, you can move a distance equal to your Speed or less.
Off turn you can't move unless noted otherwise. In which case the distance will be up to a specific distance or relative to your Speed score.
So for example a Rogue can take the Dash action as a Bonus Action, move up to twice its Speed, and also Ready to later move up to its Speed in response to a trigger.
Just to make sure I know exactly what you’re saying:
The Rogue with Speed 30’ can Move 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ then Ready their Dash(A) to move 30’ on someone else’s Turn, but Readying their Dash(A) means they have no Action for their Turn. So they move a total of 90’ if they make no other Action (Attack, Magic…) before their next turn. This would be the same as Move 30’/Dash(A) 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ on their turn.
What that Rogue cannot do is Attack/Move 30’/Dash(BA) 30’ and Ready another Move 30’ which gives them an Attack and 90’ of movement before their next Turn.
”Well Ready the Dash action effectively does nothing because this action doesn't make you move but instead let you gain extra movement for the current turn.”
Technically, you aren’t Readying Dash. You are Readying an Action OR a Move. The Action you Ready can be Dash. This means you can’t Ready Move AND a Dash(A). You also cannot Ready Dash(BA) because a Bonus Action is not an Action.
You Ready an action or you move. If you Ready the Dash action, nothing will happen on subsequent turn, so if you want to move off turn, you instead need to Ready to move and not an action.
If a Rogue with Speed 30 feet takes the Dash action twice with his action and Bonus Action, it can effectively move up to 90 feet on his turn.
A Rogue can't take the Attack action and the Ready action without a feature like the Fighter's Action Surge for example. So it's unlikely to do so.