"Can't finish its action..."

[buzz]

Enemy uses Standard Action to make an attack against me. I use a power that allows me to shift 1 square. Can the enemy uses it's Move Action to shift back next to me, then use his Standard Action to make an attack? Since he can reach me, he no longer should lose his attack action, right?

The Standard is what triggered the shift in your hypothetical. It's lost. The enemy can move (if he has not already used a Move) to be adjacent to you again, but he has no Standard left, so cannot attack (unless he has some attack he can do as a Minor).

There is no "attack action" that I am aware of.

The text is referring to the melee attack in the Interrupt example; i.e., it's still part of the "For example..." being presented. It's a general reference to the action the enemy is using to attack. That's why it's not capitalized.

 

[buzz]

Does "the action is lost" merely mean "You are considered to have expended a standard action", or "You have expended a standard action and the use of your daily power", though?

I think you'd need to indulge in some serious semantic gyrations to justify the former.

Action types (Standard, Move, Minor) don't exist without the action itself. Regardless of what type of action a Power is, it is still an action, and it is lost if the immediate interrupt negates it.

 

[RigaMortus2]

So, if a Dwarf tries to use his Second Wind (a Minor Action for Dwarves) but an enemy readied an action and attacks and drops the Dwarf, if the Dwarf is later revived during the same encounter, did he lose his Second Wind?

Just for sake of arguement, assume the Readied Action was worded: If the Dwarf tries to take a Second Wind, I will attack him with my X At-Will power.

 

[Gansk]

I just got the books and haven't yet played, but I was under the impression that interrupts could only interrupt movement. The trigger for an opportunity action is when an enemy leaves a threatened square. Readied actions that do not use movement as the trigger are reactions, not interrupts.

So under what circumstances can an enemy drop you with an OA while you are using your daily power?

 

[Kordeth]

I just got the books and haven't yet played, but I was under the impression that interrupts could only interrupt movement. The trigger for an opportunity action is when an enemy leaves a threatened square. Readied actions that do not use movement as the trigger are reactions, not interrupts.

So under what circumstances can an enemy drop you with an OA while you are using your daily power?

You're mistaken. Reactions can only interrupt movement, because movement is effectively resolved on a square-by-square basis, so a reaction can occur after any particular square of movement that could trigger it.

Interrupts interrupt whatever action triggered them. That's why they're interrupts.

 

[RigaMortus2]

I just got the books and haven't yet played, but I was under the impression that interrupts could only interrupt movement. The trigger for an opportunity action is when an enemy leaves a threatened square. Readied actions that do not use movement as the trigger are reactions, not interrupts.

So under what circumstances can an enemy drop you with an OA while you are using your daily power?

If that daily power is a ranged power or an area power, and you are adjacent to the enemy and provoke an OA, and that OA does enough damage to drop you.

 

[Hypersmurf]

So, if a Dwarf tries to use his Second Wind (a Minor Action for Dwarves) but an enemy readied an action and attacks and drops the Dwarf, if the Dwarf is later revived during the same encounter, did he lose his Second Wind?

Just for sake of arguement, assume the Readied Action was worded: If the Dwarf tries to take a Second Wind, I will attack him with my X At-Will power.

A Readied action is an immediate reaction, so the Second Wind will take effect before the enemy's readied attack occurs.

-Hyp.

 

[Gansk]

If that daily power is a ranged power or an area power, and you are adjacent to the enemy and provoke an OA, and that OA does enough damage to drop you.

Ah. Well, if you do that, you deserve to lose your power.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Ah. Well, if you do that, you deserve to lose your power.

Sometimes there is no other option. Your back is against the wall, down to minimum HPs, you have 1 chance to save the day, you sometimes have to take the chance and cast a spell and hope against the OA hitting. This isn't something that should be done as a routine. But the situation can occur, and through no fault of the players or DM either (ie bad die rolls)