Delay Turn or Action?

[Sand1972]

With the full release have they still not implemented anyway to take a Readying Actionper 5ed rules?
My rogue ALWAYS has the highest intiative, but this means he never has an opportunity to use backstab because none of his companions have started to enagage the enemy yet before his turn.

[TowerWizard]

Originally posted by Telmorial:

To the OP, I'm still learning this (so maybe I'm wrong) but I think you can.
You can switch to other party members.

E.G.
1. Your rogue is first
2. Instead of completing your rogue turn, you click on another party member(s) and they do their thing, ending their turn.
3. Then your rogue can do back stabs etc.

No, this is not how it works, unless perhaps they got the exact same initiative roll.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by TowerWizard:

Look at the post three steps above yours.

You mean the one that doubled down on the sarcasm?

I'm not sure what's funnier, @CiZerin's replies here, or the people missing the all-too-obvious sarcasm entirely.

As for the actual topic of this thread, I agree, it would be nice to have a ready action option to delay one's turn in the initiative order. Though, one thing you can do if you want your rogue to get sneak attack on the very first round...start the combat from stealth, and get surprise on your enemies. That works great.

[CiZerin]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I'm not sure what's funnier, @CiZerin's replies here, or the people missing the all-too-obvious sarcasm entirely.

man, I facepalm so hard, it's like I'm back in 00's

[HozzMidnight]

One of the many things that was pointed out on day 1 of EA that STILL is not in the game.

[Grifta]

This makes combat excruciating! You have to savescum every combat and hope that it start in an order that works for your party instead of just delaying into the order you want.

It's an essential feature of tactical RPGs.

[TowerWizard]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by TowerWizard:

Look at the post three steps above yours.

You mean the one that doubled down on the sarcasm?

I'm not sure what's funnier, @CiZerin's replies here, or the people missing the all-too-obvious sarcasm entirely.

Just wanted you to notice all of his sarcasm.

Man, people missing sarcasm are the worst.

[Sand1972]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by TowerWizard:

Look at the post three steps above yours.

You mean the one that doubled down on the sarcasm?

I'm not sure what's funnier, @CiZerin's replies here, or the people missing the all-too-obvious sarcasm entirely.

As for the actual topic of this thread, I agree, it would be nice to have a ready action option to delay one's turn in the initiative order. Though, one thing you can do if you want your rogue to get sneak attack on the very first round...start the combat from stealth, and get surprise on your enemies. That works great.

Yeah unbinding/ungrouping the party and having the rogues out of combat and stealthed to start is how I have been working around this. Its cheese but it allows me to actually follow how 5th ed D&D should be played.

[Batman]

True

[Valois]

Originally posted by CiZerin:

Originally posted by TowerWizard:

Yes, this is very disappointing. Solasta has it. Also, how can then have failed to implement the Dodge action? This should be super simple to add.

you can't compare Solasta and BG3. Solasta is a AAA game mabe by well known Devs and it also has full licence from WoTC. While BG3 is a first project from a small and young inde studio Larian with a very limit budget and basic Open Gaming License from WoTC.

Larian is is a very experienced studio, with more than 400 devs in different countries, already launched big AAA games in the past, you are very wrong right there.

[CiZerin]

Originally posted by Valois:

Larian is is a very experienced studio, with more than 400 devs in different countries, already launched big AAA games in the past, you are very wrong right there.

nice try mr. troll, but you can't fool me

[Jaggid Edje]

BTW, You can change the order of your characters in a round by selecting one that has a later initiative than the one that is going. That does work. As long as there are no enemy actions in between, you can change the order that your party acts by clicking their portraits in the turn order at the top.

Maybe you can even do it with some trick that I haven't discovered when an enemy has a turn in between. I haven't figure that out yet though.

[StrangerDanger [EN]]

Woooooooooooooosh.

[CiZerin]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

BTW, the person who said you can change the order of your characters in a round by selecting one that has a later initiative than the one that is going wasn't lying. That does work. As long as there are no enemy actions in between, you can change the order that your party acts by clicking their portraits.

Maybe you can even do it with some trick that I haven't discovered when an enemy has a turn in between. I haven't figure that out yet though.

When to PCs are next to each other on Initiative track there actions, bonus actions and moves can be played in any order. It was tought in prologue and also in Tutorial section of your Journal.

[Dre G Writer]

Originally posted by Telmorial:

To the OP, I'm still learning this (so maybe I'm wrong) but I think you can.
You can switch to other party members.

E.G.
1. Your rogue is first
2. Instead of completing your rogue turn, you click on another party member(s) and they do their thing, ending their turn.
3. Then your rogue can do back stabs etc.

This is only true, IF your other team mates roll initiative as high as your rogues to go before all the other enemies. If there is a enemy between yall in the turn order, then you can not do this.

The feat ALERT with all your team mates will make this a lot easier to pull off

[Pyronius]

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

Originally posted by Telmorial:

To the OP, I'm still learning this (so maybe I'm wrong) but I think you can.
You can switch to other party members.

E.G.
1. Your rogue is first
2. Instead of completing your rogue turn, you click on another party member(s) and they do their thing, ending their turn.
3. Then your rogue can do back stabs etc.

This is only true, IF your other team mates roll initiative as high as your rogues to go before all the other enemies. If there is a enemy between yall in the turn order, then you can not do this.

The feat ALERT with all your team mates will make this a lot easier to pull off

So I loaded a few different saves and I'm cornfused, sometimes it seems the case and others not.. unless when this happen the PCs and NPCs all have the same exact initiative (dont think you can look at initiative numbers after the initial roll so I can't look on the saves that do allow this).

Uploaded a clip of a combat where it allowed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAEMAP4qElc