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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5208530" data-attributes="member: 29398">Before he casts, or while he casts?Realism would indicate disruption can only happen while casting, as allowing damage taken before casting to disrupt opens up a nasty can of worms that's ugly to even try to explain but it involves damage near the end of the previous round potentially being closer in time to your early-in-round start-to-cast time than damage taken early in a round vs. your late-in-round start.One thing I did ages ago was to line up the segments.&nbsp; Originally, spells worked on a ten-segment round and melee worked on a 6-segment round.&nbsp; This is seventeen kinds of messy, so I put everything to a 6-segment round (and adjusted most of the spell casting times accordingly).&nbsp; Now it's easy - if you start a 3-segment spell on init. 5 you're interruptable until you resolve on a 2...but I've never had it that you're interruptable when you're not actually casting.I'll have to take a closer look, but I don't remember anything saying you lose a spell you have not yet begun to cast.&nbsp; Interesting.I fully agree about the risky part, though.&nbsp; Doing away with casting times was IMO a big mistake at the design level.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 5208530, member: 29398"] [B]Before[/B] he casts, or [B]while[/B] he casts? Realism would indicate disruption can only happen while casting, as allowing damage taken before casting to disrupt opens up a nasty can of worms that's ugly to even try to explain but it involves damage near the end of the previous round potentially being closer in time to your early-in-round start-to-cast time than damage taken early in a round vs. your late-in-round start. One thing I did ages ago was to line up the segments. Originally, spells worked on a ten-segment round and melee worked on a 6-segment round. This is seventeen kinds of messy, so I put everything to a 6-segment round (and adjusted most of the spell casting times accordingly). Now it's easy - if you start a 3-segment spell on init. 5 you're interruptable until you resolve on a 2...but I've never had it that you're interruptable when you're not actually casting. I'll have to take a closer look, but I don't remember anything saying you lose a spell you have not yet begun to cast. Interesting. I fully agree about the risky part, though. Doing away with casting times was IMO a big mistake at the design level. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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