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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2832718" data-attributes="member: 12037">I disagree. How does the character know who is targetted by the scorching ray? Because it just fried the guy. How does the character know that the blow from the ogre's axe connected with his friend? Because the axe imbedded itself in the guy. The character and the players (including the DM) find out at the exact same time.It is perfectly acceptable for the Player to see that an ogre is attempting to bisect his friend with his greataxe. It is completely unacceptable for the Player to only use delay death if he knows that the ogre is actually going to kill the character because the DM has already announced that he hit. By that time, the axe had indeed imbedded itself into the guy and there isn't a whole lot that can help him other than a nice raise dead. The Player can't jump back in time with knowlege of what has been rolled in order to act only after knowing for a fact that the blow will land. How does the PC know? For some reason he only casts delay death and energy aegis when the attacks/spells hit, never when they miss? That's quite the precognative sense, don't you think?EDIT: In actually play, the DM needs to announce intent for NPCs before resolution. Otherwise, the DM is moving too fast for the Players to keep up and not allowing them to use their abilities to their fullest. If the DM just announces damage with no opportunity for the PCs to use their Immediate actions, then he needs to slow down.</blockquote>

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