Our Group's Cleric has the duty to protect the backline wizard. Following scenario:
a bunch of enemies is 20 feet away and it is not clear if our frontline can engage all of them. The Cleric is worried that an enemy could circle around his melee range and attack the wizard directly by flanking him. He thus wants to Ready an Action: If a melee enemy comes within 12 feet of me i move to him and attack.
I allowed this in the moment but i did not find a definitive answer if it is possible. If he could ONLY move and uses his reaction for the Ready Action itself, he would have no Reaction to intercept the melee enemy if the latter just runs past him nontheless, and this approach of using the Ready Action would not work.
RAW, using the Ready action, a player can choose an action to perform OR to move up to their speed, which they then do by taking a reaction once their triggering condition is met. They can not both move and perform an action as a readied response.
That said, I would absolutely allow a player to do what you described, so long as they were "saving" their movement for when they take a reaction, rather than using on their turn. It's not quite RAW, but I think it is perfectly reasonable.
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Our Group's Cleric has the duty to protect the backline wizard. Following scenario:
a bunch of enemies is 20 feet away and it is not clear if our frontline can engage all of them. The Cleric is worried that an enemy could circle around his melee range and attack the wizard directly by flanking him. He thus wants to Ready an Action: If a melee enemy comes within 12 feet of me i move to him and attack.
I allowed this in the moment but i did not find a definitive answer if it is possible. If he could ONLY move and uses his reaction for the Ready Action itself, he would have no Reaction to intercept the melee enemy if the latter just runs past him nontheless, and this approach of using the Ready Action would not work.
RAW, using the Ready action, a player can choose an action to perform OR to move up to their speed, which they then do by taking a reaction once their triggering condition is met. They can not both move and perform an action as a readied response.
That said, I would absolutely allow a player to do what you described, so long as they were "saving" their movement for when they take a reaction, rather than using on their turn. It's not quite RAW, but I think it is perfectly reasonable.