Reactive Feystep feat question

[Rechan]

In the Feywild city article, there is a feat called "Reactive Feystep".

The text reads:

Benefit: When you are the target of a push, pull, slide, or other forced movement, you may use your Fey Step as an immediate reaction to negate the forced movement.

My question: does your fey step function as normal (teleport 5), or is the power simply used up to negate the movement effect (i.e. you stay exactly where you are, and lose your use of the fey step power)?

 

[fissionessence]

I wondered the same thing; the wording doesn't seem to exactly articulate this. The phrase 'use your Fey Step as an immediate reaction' seems to suggest actually using it as opposed to simply expending or exhausting it. On the other hand, the phrase 'to negate the forced movement' suggests that the way you use it is to negate the movement, rather than as for its normal effect.

However, I believe that you get the full usage of the Fey Step power and would therefore rephrase the feat this way:

Benefit: When you are the target of a push, pull, slide or other forced moement, you may use your Fey Step as an immediate reaction. If you do, also negate the forced movement.

Another possible phrasing would bring up the situation where one could possibly negate the movement without using the Fey Step, which is why I added the 'if you do' clause.

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[proto128]

You use your use of the Fey Step power that encounter to negate a forced movement effect. If Fey Step functioned as normal in addition to that effect, I assume an "and" would be in there somewhere; then again, I also assume more than zero persons would edit a Dragon magazine article before it hit the tubes.

 

[DracoSuave]

The power is an immediate reaction, so it doesn't prevent the forced movement, but what it does is undoes it. So you -do- Fey Step, with your destination being exactly where you started before you were push/pulled