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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7120740" data-attributes="member: 6799649">In both cases the sequence of events and the timing of them in the narrative (do each, in order, as quickly as you can) is unchanged. Whatever the 'observe, orient, decide, act' time may be, it is identical in each case.Rage lasts 10 rounds. You get 10 rounds worth of damage resistance no matter which part of your turn was used to activate Rage.Just like any use of Rage, you know that you've got to make an attack on your next turn (If you haven't taken any damage) or your Rage ends early. Again, working as it should.The only absurdity would be to say that the Rage switches off a nano-second after you switch it on!In context, when it says, "Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then", it is talking about the Rage ending early in the context of actually being in that Rage.If you take it out of context and rule that it ends as soon as it starts, then not only are you deliberately choosing to interpret it out of that context but also choosing to make it absurd, just because you can read it in an absurd way. There is a perfectly sensible interpretation right there!In law, if a law can be interpreted in two ways and one way would be absurd, the law must be interpreted in the way that makes sense.What makes sense is that the Rage ends if it's been going on for a round and you neither attack nor take damage. What you did/didn't do before you even started to Rage is neither here nor there!</blockquote>

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