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<blockquote data-quote="Malbet" data-source="post: 6538603" data-attributes="member: 6791053">But timing of actions DOES matter. A spell goes off on a specific moment, a monster dies in another...I remember lots of games with pre-declared action or categorized initiative (spell first, then ranged, then melee) in which you can attack a dead monster if it goes down before your turn, where you may or may not be able to change your action due to events... but this is not one of them.Nonetheless it's not that I'm against that thing, even better if the player tells me it does something specific that I can summarize as Help instead of mechanically saying &quot;I use Help on Mike's character&quot;, but as two out of three DMs present at the time AND the first two answering here agreed, I'm curious if it's plain wrong or it's open to interpretation.I'm trying to stick to the rulebook, at the moment, and I want to give my players clear options which can also be &quot;depends on what you do exactly&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malbet, post: 6538603, member: 6791053"] But timing of actions DOES matter. A spell goes off on a specific moment, a monster dies in another... I remember lots of games with pre-declared action or categorized initiative (spell first, then ranged, then melee) in which you can attack a dead monster if it goes down before your turn, where you may or may not be able to change your action due to events... but this is not one of them. Nonetheless it's not that I'm against that thing, even better if the player tells me it does something specific that I can summarize as Help instead of mechanically saying "I use Help on Mike's character", but as two out of three DMs present at the time AND the first two answering here agreed, I'm curious if it's plain wrong or it's open to interpretation. I'm trying to stick to the rulebook, at the moment, and I want to give my players clear options which can also be "depends on what you do exactly". [/QUOTE]

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