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<blockquote data-quote="noodohs" data-source="post: 9583178" data-attributes="member: 7033037">Sort of, it's covered in the section on making an attack: <a href="https://a5e.tools/rules/making-attack" target="_blank">Making an Attack | Level Up</a>. I'm not sure that it makes it less confusing as it does not specifically call it out as separate from the attack, but keep in mind that if you cannot target a creature, you generally cannot attack them. Hence targeting a creature is a prerequisite for making an attack, which is to say you have to target them first before you can make an attack. I suppose you could argue that because it is part of the process of making an attack that it is part of the attack, but then you'd also have to argue that you don't get to know whether or not you can target something before declaring an attack and run the risk of your entire action being wasted because you can't target them. Then again, in Pathfinder 2 (obviously this is not applicable here, just interesting), targeting is part of the Strike action (which you'd use to attack), but there they can call out specific actions (like Strike) that can trigger reactions, so it's (hopefully) less confusing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="noodohs, post: 9583178, member: 7033037"] Sort of, it's covered in the section on making an attack: [URL="https://a5e.tools/rules/making-attack"]Making an Attack | Level Up[/URL]. I'm not sure that it makes it less confusing as it does not specifically call it out as separate from the attack, but keep in mind that if you cannot target a creature, you generally cannot attack them. Hence targeting a creature is a prerequisite for making an attack, which is to say you have to target them first before you can make an attack. I suppose you could argue that because it is part of the process of making an attack that it is part of the attack, but then you'd also have to argue that you don't get to know whether or not you can target something before declaring an attack and run the risk of your entire action being wasted because you can't target them. Then again, in Pathfinder 2 (obviously this is not applicable here, just interesting), targeting [I]is[/I] part of the Strike action (which you'd use to attack), but there they can call out specific actions (like Strike) that can trigger reactions, so it's (hopefully) less confusing. [/QUOTE]

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