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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6867367" data-attributes="member: 6799649">There is a difference between a player rolling a 'hit' and the character actually being struck. One is merely a game mechanic (upon which other game mechanics may depend) and the other happens to a creature in-game.The shield spell, and the game mechanics involved, doesn't represent the creature being hit in-game and then casting shield and them time rewinding in-game. It represents the fact that the creature would have been hit if he hadn't interposed a magical shield of force in the nick of time, preventing the creature ever being hit at all in-game!The 'hit' mechanic really represents that the creature will be hit, unless the creature can do something about it! Most of the time it can't, and then the creature is actually hit in-game and the effects of the hit are applied. However, some of the time, the creature can do something about it (shield, Uncanny Dodge, Relentless Rage, etc.) and this means that the creature was never affected by what the hit would have been and is instead affected by the attacking effect modified by the reaction. The game mechanic of a 'hit' triggers the reaction, and the effects of being hit (damage, reaction-denial, whatever) are only applied after the reaction.We know that Uncanny Dodge must work that way. You say that reaction-denial is an effect of being hit, but so is being damaged! But the effects of being hit are only actually applied to the target after Uncanny Dodge has already modified it, and those effects include BOTH damage AND reaction-denial. If those effects were actually applied before the reaction modifies it then it would be Uncanny Healing, and we know that it doesn't work that way.</blockquote>

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