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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1765797" data-attributes="member: 18549">Say, while we're at it, I've been meaning to try to find a clarification to how Immediate Actions work.  Let's use the example of an augmented Energy Adaptation.Do you use the power1. before an attack is made:"The dragon takes a deep breath and..." or "The wizard casts a spell...spellcraft rolls?"2. after the attack is made, but before damage dice are rolled:"...breathes a gout of flame all over you." or "You are hit by a fireball that the wizard cast."3. or after the dice are rolled:"For forty hit points of fire damage"Or do you have to interrupt before they even get going with the attack?I ask because according to the way I read the rule, it seems to say #1...you have a reasonable idea that an attack is coming, but you might not know what the attack is yet, so you have to gamble.  But there might be an argument for #2: you do need to choose an energy type to defend against, and most of the time with spellcasters (and psions especially, what with their selectable energy types) you don't know what that is until you're hit.  Elans have two racial abilities that are immediate actions.  The first raises saving throws (which works great with #1), but the second reduces damage.  Does this mean that you can wait until you know how much damage you take before you reduce it (#3), or do you reduce, and then take damage hoping you reduced enough but not too much?Any comments?  Clarifications?</blockquote>

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