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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 237054" data-attributes="member: 994">I think you've hit upon a very important point, and this is central to my disagreement with Jaych (the player/DM, just to keep anonymity going) and ouini on this topic.  Couple this with madfox's observations on "walking tin cans" and you've argued my case for me.  It seems very reasonable that while the fighter is trying to land a blow on the wizard, that same wizard can dodge left or juke right and gain enough time to raise his hand, point his index finger, stick his thumb up and yell "Bang!" which is the Verbal and Somatic components (in my head, silly me) of something like Magic Missile.  In game terms I just described (again, in my head) the fighter swinging on their turn, the wizard taking a 5' step away and casting on theirs (without inducing an AoO).So maddman75 (and others), I'm not caving on this point.  Regardless.  If Jaych doesn't like it he can play a different character or quit outright.  What I *am* willing to bend on is the situation ouini describes above.  I can very easily picture a wizard moving 30' back from the fighter while getting his hand into the mystical "gun-like" configuration for a Magic Missile spell at the fighter.  What I can't picture is why this AoO (movement induced for moving more than 5' and taking any action other than movement) does not affect the wizard's spellcasting ability, but a readied ranged attack by the fighter would.  It's for this reason I'm going to talk with Jaych about "all damage on the spellcaster's initiative count goes towards the Concentration check".  ouini and I are curious to see how he'll respond to this, as well as all of our work (much of it from this thread, thanks again all) to outline how the rest of the system doesn't need changing and is balanced as is.DrSpunjPS: mikebr99 - Cordell clarified on Monte's board Burst does stack with Speed of Thought, which is enough for me to house rule it so.  Jaych tried to use Hustle in our last game to bring him close to the goblin psion so he could interrupt his manifestations, but the confines of the dragon's mouth/throat thwarted him and he was pretty upset about it (OSM anyone?).  This discussion stemmed from that and how even with his superspeed he couldn't stop the goblin psion.  ouini and I have looked into the situation thoroughly now and are ready to straighten out a couple of his misconceptions about how 3E handles spell interruption.  If people are interested I'll post again after our discussions with him.</blockquote>

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