Can you ready a grapple?

[Bellberith]

simple question. can you ready a grapple action for when someone steps close to you?

in the PHB i saw you can ready a standard action and a move action. but at a different part of the chart i saw "action type varies" and grapple is under that instead of standard. So that made me come here to ask.

Thanks :smallsmile:

[ericgrau]

Initiating a grapple is an attack which can be done as a standard action. So you can ready an action to initiate a grapple. After you've initiated a grapple you can do various things which are various types of actions.