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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Colmarr" data-source="post: 4181076" data-attributes="member: 59182">That's a straw man. How I would argue about an arbitrary alternate power in no way impacts on the proper interpretation of the power in question.Having said that, and in answer to your question: no I wouldn't. I'm not sure why. I think largely it would be because turning a hit into a possible miss is too much trouble in terms of the maths and record keeping involved. Adding 5 damage to one character's hits (that happened in the last 2 minutes) is much easier than figuring out which OA hits become misses and which OA inflicted what damage.I'm already satisfied that I will play this as a "prospective only" power and the damage will not apply retrospectively. However, I'm not satisified that that interpretation is the correct RAW one (and I'm generally a stickler for RAW). Nor am I satisfied that this rule is as clear as it should be.As a lawyer in RL, I know that clarity is a big deal in law/rule making. Getting this power crystal-clear would have been as simple as inserting the words "until the end of your turn" or "until the start of your next turn" or even substituting the word "After" for the word "When" at the beginning of the power.</blockquote>