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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6874212" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Of course it does. If an opportunity attack didn't interrupt a creature's movement out of your reach then you wouldn't be able to attack it. Because it does interrupt the creature's movement, if you incapacitate the creature with an opportunity attack the creature's movement is left incomplete. Shield works the same way. Its trigger is the hit. If it didn't interrupt the hit, then the spell would have no power to protect you from it. Since it does interrupt the hit, if the resulting AC is high enough, the hit is left incomplete and you take no damage. In both cases, the reaction's effect depends on it interrupting its trigger. Compare this with Uncanny Dodge. It triggers off a hit. Whether you use the reaction or not, the hit is complete and uninterrupted. The effect, as far as the trigger is concerned, is that you are still hit. But an opportunity attack could not have the effect it does if it didn't interrupt movement, if the creature's movement was allowed to complete as with the usual timing of a reaction. No, if &quot;when you are hit&quot; were the only indication of timing, as it is with Uncanny Dodge, then the hit would be allowed to complete before you could take the reaction. If you were hit with shocking grasp, for instance, you would no longer be able to cast shield.The interruption only exists to ensure that shield can be used to counter its trigger. No, reactions don't normally interrupt.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 6874212, member: 6787503"] Of course it does. If an opportunity attack didn't interrupt a creature's movement out of your reach then you wouldn't be able to attack it. Because it does interrupt the creature's movement, if you incapacitate the creature with an opportunity attack the creature's movement is left incomplete. [I]Shield[/I] works the same way. Its trigger is the hit. If it didn't interrupt the hit, then the spell would have no power to protect you from it. Since it does interrupt the hit, if the resulting AC is high enough, the hit is left incomplete and you take no damage. In both cases, the reaction's effect depends on it interrupting its trigger. Compare this with Uncanny Dodge. It triggers off a hit. Whether you use the reaction or not, the hit is complete and uninterrupted. The effect, as far as the trigger is concerned, is that you are still hit. But an opportunity attack could not have the effect it does if it didn't interrupt movement, if the creature's movement was allowed to complete as with the usual timing of a reaction. No, if "when you are hit" were the only indication of timing, as it is with Uncanny Dodge, then the hit would be allowed to complete before you could take the reaction. If you were hit with [I]shocking grasp[/I], for instance, you would no longer be able to cast [I]shield[/I]. The interruption only exists to ensure that [I]shield[/I] can be used to counter its trigger. No, reactions don't normally interrupt. [/QUOTE]

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