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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skyscraper" data-source="post: 8165852" data-attributes="member: 48518">Hi, I've been designing another (unrelated) game, and I'd like to draw your attention to one challenge that we face with the concept of interrupting attacks.. In the following wording that you have:Hissing Scuttle (1/day). When the vampire takes radiant damage, it moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.Warding Charm (1/day). When a creature the vampire can see targets it with a melee attack, the vampire uses Charm on that creature.In Hissing Scuttle, does "when the vampire takes radiant damage" actually mean "after it takes the damage"? If it does, I would use the latter wording to avoid confusion. If it doesn't, i.e. if it means when it's about to take radiant damage but before it does, it means that it can interrupt the damage, but this opens other challenges: since it moves away, what if an attack deals both normal (untyped) damage and radiant damage: does it take the normal damage but not the radiant damage? So, the solution of "after it takes damage" is probably simpler.In Warding Charm, what does "when a creature targets the vampire with an attack" mean? Does it mean, after it targets, but before it resolves the attack? It appears it would be so, in which case I assume you've broken down the "making attack an attack sequence" into its different components, e.g.:1) declare attack. including identifying all targets2) roll d203) apply damage and effects of the attackI also assume you've identified in the rules that if an attack is declared but interrupted (e.g. it becomes charmed or incapacitated), such that the attacker cannot carry out the attack, after the "declare attack" step but before the "roll d20" step, then the attack fizzles and cannot be resolved.Do you have other powers that can interrupt steps (2) and (3) also? For example assume that hissing scuttle included the vampire attacking, "when the vampire takes radiant damage, it moves up to its speed and makes a bite attack", if it hits and kills the original attacker, would the original attack still be resolved? I.e. at what step(s) can an attack be interrupted such that it will not be resolved?</blockquote>

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