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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2017461" data-attributes="member: 23094">I believe the text is being misapplied.Specifically, everything that happens during a round is happening more or less simultaneously from a cinematic perspective.As in, the fighter doesn't move up to the wizard, swing once, and then sit around for 6 seconds while the wizard backs off and casts a spell, etc.Cinematically, the fighter charges the wizard, swinging his sword about, while the wizard rolls out of the way, lobbing a fireball over his head to scorch the orcs behind him, etc.  It's all simultaneous.Mechanically, no action is ever resolved mid-die roll through another action.  One thing always happens before another.  An AoO mechanically takes place before the action that inspired it, even though cinematically it takes place simultaneously.From a recent thread, an action readied to disrupt spellcasting looks mechanically like:Wizard: "..."Archer: *shoots an arrow, hits*Wizard: *makes Concentration check, pulls components, points* "Calabraxes zathra!"Crackling Evil Ray: *arcs to archer*Archer: *dissolves in a puddle of goo*Cinematically, however, it looks like:Wizard: *pulls components, points* "Calabraxes ..."Archer: *shoots an arrow, hits*Wizard: *makes Concentration check, maintains point* " ... zathra!"Crackling Evil Ray: *arcs to archer*Archer: *dissolves in a puddle of goo*EDIT:Also, check your DMG.  There's a section in there discussing Tordek the dwarf triggering a trap during combat, and when in the round the DM should apply the effects.I believe the section is called, "Simultaneous Actions."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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