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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7315769">Counterspell is a great example.  Thanks.  You're right, there really is at least one official, unambiguous example of a reaction that is explicitly allowed to occur a time of the player's choosing.  Here's the official text:Note that it says "casting", not "casts".  And it even adds "in the process of" for good measure, just to make sure we get the point.If the description had read, "when you see a creature within 60 feet of you cast a spell" we would have been stuck in the same argument.  Right?So what this tells me is that when the reaction is meant to be interpreted in a way that allows some leeway in timing, the rules are very explicit about it.  And the description for Feather Fall lacks that explicitness.  Previously I wrote:But given this new evidence I would have to say that "falls" most likely means they intended the stricter interpretation.If, on the other hand, the casting time had used "casts" and then the body of the description were phrased as it currently is, I would have had no choice but to concede that Feather Fall might work the same way.  But that's not what they wrote.  Such a shame, really.So, thank you (both) for alerting me to this illuminating exception to the pattern.  Any other examples?</blockquote>