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<blockquote data-quote="Skyscraper" data-source="post: 8166572" data-attributes="member: 48518">Your point about reaction rules already handling a lot concerning the timing, is relevant. Thank you for pointing this out.My understanding of reactions, since the rules say it is &quot;a response&quot; to a trigger, is that the triggering event must be resolved entirely before the reaction takes place. So this would settle the question of Hissing Scuttle: after the vampire takes damage, it may use Hissing Scuttle as a reaction.However, regarding Warding Charm, it seems to me like the &quot;targeting&quot; trigger was not intended to be equivalent to the trigger &quot;attacking&quot;. If it were, I think that the word &quot;attacking&quot; should be used. Those two words mean different things in their plain ordinary meaning, and using one instead of the other suggests that a distinction is intended.Also, the word &quot;warding&quot; in the power name is suggestive of a protection against (the triggering event), and to me suggests that the intent is for the power to actually allow the Vampire to avoid the attack by charming the attacking creature when it targets the vampire but before it carries out the attack. Whether this is the intent or not, I think that either the rules should be clarified with a breakdown of substeps in the attack sequence to allow this interruption of the attack sequence, or another trigger should be used.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Skyscraper, post: 8166572, member: 48518"] Your point about reaction rules already handling a lot concerning the timing, is relevant. Thank you for pointing this out. My understanding of reactions, since the rules say it is "a response" to a trigger, is that the triggering event must be resolved entirely before the reaction takes place. So this would settle the question of Hissing Scuttle: after the vampire takes damage, it may use Hissing Scuttle as a reaction. However, regarding Warding Charm, it seems to me like the "targeting" trigger was not intended to be equivalent to the trigger "attacking". If it were, I think that the word "attacking" should be used. Those two words mean different things in their plain ordinary meaning, and using one instead of the other suggests that a distinction is intended. Also, the word "warding" in the power name is suggestive of a protection against (the triggering event), and to me suggests that the intent is for the power to actually allow the Vampire to avoid the attack by charming the attacking creature when it targets the vampire but before it carries out the attack. Whether this is the intent or not, I think that either the rules should be clarified with a breakdown of substeps in the attack sequence to allow this interruption of the attack sequence, or another trigger should be used. [/QUOTE]

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