Immediate interrupt - before or after damage is announced?

[Final Attack]

1. Does an immediate interrupt have to be done before the DM rolls?

2. Before he announces damage done?

 

[ForbidenMaster]

1. Does an immediate interrupt have to be done before the DM rolls?

2. Before he announces damage done?

Depends on what the trigger is. Could you give an example power and situation?

 

[DracoSuave]

Depends on what the trigger is. Could you give an example power and situation?

For example. Shield is an Immediate Interrupt that triggers when you are hit. You therefore announce it after the attack hits, but before damage. Staff of Defense, on the other hand is an Immediate Interrupt that triggers when you are damaged, and you announce it after damage is announced.

In both cases you may negate the damage completely by raising your defense above the attack roll of the attacker, but they give you different windows of opportunity as to when you can declare them.

 

[kouk]

It depends on your DM more than anything.

If your DM is a hardass and says "You have to interrupt me before I tell you what the damage is," then that is what you have to do.

If your DM is more lenient, he will probably let you interrupt any time before it's the next monster/player's action.

If he's super lenient he may let you interrupt even after a round or more has gone by

I think the individual wordings of the powers is what tells you when to perform the action. "If you are hit" tends to imply any time you know you were hit, not necessarily how much damage was dealt.

 

[Mengu]

In the heat of battle, to keep things flowing fast, the DM may tend to say, "you are hit for 16 points of damage," before you get to interrupt him in the amount of time it takes him to say "for". So I'm guessing most DM's will be lenient enough to allow you to use your interrupt in these cases, even if the power technically triggers before damage is announced.

 

[cangrejoide]

For example. Shield is an Immediate Interrupt that triggers when you are hit. You therefore announce it after the attack hits, but before damage. Staff of Defense, on the other hand is an Immediate Interrupt that triggers when you are damaged, and you announce it after damage is announced.

In both cases you may negate the damage completely by raising your defense above the attack roll of the attacker, but they give you different windows of opportunity as to when you can declare them.

Hmm on a related question:

Can you use both of these abilities for the same action? I remember reading something along the lines of 'one inmediate action per turn only' limitation.