Opportunity attacks and spell casting

[Digital M@]

So the spell caster takes a hit while trying to cast a spell. Does he still get to cast the spell? Any checks or save required?

 

[fnwc]

So the spell caster takes a hit while trying to cast a spell. Does he still get to cast the spell? Any checks or save required?

There is no Concentration skill and as a result, he would still be able to cast after being hit (unless the power he was hit by says otherwise).

Similarly not all spells would provoke, only Area and Ranged spells (e.g., Burning Hands is a close spell and does not provoke OAs).

 

[Jawar]

Same goes for firing a bow.

1. You TRY to fire the bow
2. An opportunity attack may hit you
3. You can proceed with firing the arrow, weather you were hit or not AND if you are still conscious

Right, hmm...?

 

[Jack99]

An OA is an immediate action, not an immediate interrupt action, and thus happens just after the action that provokes it. Meaning yes, range and area spells who provoke OA's, still get through (although the caster may die from the hit afterwards).

The whole interrupting spells from the previous editions had nothing to do with realism, and all to do with balancing casters against meleers. This is supposedly not needed anymore, and thus spell-casting is no longer able to be interrupted. At least not with a power that does so.

 

[hero4hire]

Also as an Immediate Action and Not an Interrupt Action the Opportunist may never get off his attack if the spell kills him right?

 

[fnwc]

An OA is an immediate action, not an immediate interrupt action, and thus happens just after the action that provokes it.

Actually, an OA is an interrupt action. From KOTS: "An opportunity action interrupts the action that triggered it. The most common opportunity action is an opportunity attack."

Otherwise (if it were not an interrupt) then someone would move past you, triggering an OA and then possibly move out of your range before you could hit them with a melee attack.

 

[Jawar]

Also as an Immediate Action and Not an Interrupt Action the Opportunist may never get off his attack if the spell kills him right?

Blast the Opportunist, I say!

Damn! Damn opportunists.

 

[hero4hire]

Actually, an OA is an interrupt action. From KOTS: "An opportunity action interrupts the action that triggered it. The most common opportunity action is an opportunity attack."

Otherwise (if it were not an interrupt) then someone would move past you, triggering an OA and then possibly move out of your range before you could hit them with a melee attack.

Well that changes everything then!

 

[Jack99]

Actually, an OA is an interrupt action. From KOTS: "An opportunity action interrupts the action that triggered it. The most common opportunity action is an opportunity attack."

Otherwise (if it were not an interrupt) then someone would move past you, triggering an OA and then possibly move out of your range before you could hit them with a melee attack.

Hmm yeah. I got some words mixed up there.

Scalegloom Hall had the same wording, and yet whenever I asked, I was told that OA's didn't interrupt spell-casting.

Color me confused.

 

[Jawar]

I think the term "interrupt" can cause some confusion.

The interrupt action may not 'interrupt' at all. It just comes right before the action being 'interrupted'.

Nevertheless, in game terms, it's an interrupt action, the one performed by 'opportunists'.

And that is just in real life:
Opportunist people interfere/interrupt other peoples lives.
Still, all these other people may keep on with their lives once the interference goes off.
Well, most of the time.
Sometimes not. Really. For real.
ehrr...