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<blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7510240" data-attributes="member: 6796566"><p>Brushing your teeth is a real-world activity, and not really analogous to the nit-picking of game mechanics.</p><p></p><p>Here are a couple of examples which, I think, serve to illustrate the distinction between the Attack Action and an attack.</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Your PC declares the Attack Action, either explicitly or by saying "I'll take a couple of swings at the orc standing in front of me." As it happens, there is an enemy spellcaster who has readied a spell, specifically <em>hold person</em>, for a trigger of "hostile action." When your PC takes the attack action, the trigger condition is met and the spell is cast. You fail the save, and your PC is held and unable to make the attack on the orc. You've taken the attack action, but made no attacks.<br /> <p style="text-align: center">-</p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A couple of rounds later, you make the save and your PC is no longer held. On its turn, the orc moves away from you and provokes an attack of opportunity. You make a melee weapon attack. In this case, you didn't take the attack action (your save was at the end of your turn, so you took no action in combat that round.) The attack was granted by a reaction.</li> </ol><p></p><p>To me, anyway, the distinctions between an attack and The Attack Action extend through the conceptual and semantic into the metaphysical, formal, and existential realms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epithet, post: 7510240, member: 6796566"] Brushing your teeth is a real-world activity, and not really analogous to the nit-picking of game mechanics. Here are a couple of examples which, I think, serve to illustrate the distinction between the Attack Action and an attack. [LIST=1] [*]Your PC declares the Attack Action, either explicitly or by saying "I'll take a couple of swings at the orc standing in front of me." As it happens, there is an enemy spellcaster who has readied a spell, specifically [I]hold person[/I], for a trigger of "hostile action." When your PC takes the attack action, the trigger condition is met and the spell is cast. You fail the save, and your PC is held and unable to make the attack on the orc. You've taken the attack action, but made no attacks. [CENTER]-[/CENTER] [*]A couple of rounds later, you make the save and your PC is no longer held. On its turn, the orc moves away from you and provokes an attack of opportunity. You make a melee weapon attack. In this case, you didn't take the attack action (your save was at the end of your turn, so you took no action in combat that round.) The attack was granted by a reaction. [/LIST] To me, anyway, the distinctions between an attack and The Attack Action extend through the conceptual and semantic into the metaphysical, formal, and existential realms. [/QUOTE]
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