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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Proctor" data-source="post: 5059558" data-attributes="member: 78547">Not really.&nbsp; Even if it's a free action, it must meet the trigger of the cultist being dropped to 0HP, which means it can happen instantly after that trigger is met.&nbsp; Since applying damage is usually the last part of resolving an attack, the critter is still gonna die after he does his death strike.Now, if it were an immediate interrupt, that's different.&nbsp; In that case, it would interrupt the action that caused the trigger (an attack in this case), and if it pushed away the offending attacker then it could nullify the attack (similar to what a Fighter can do when his Combat Challenge attack gets a push effect).&nbsp; That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense though, since then the cultist wouldn't be dead after his death strike, so I would imagine it's probably a free action, immediate reaction or just no action...anything else would have some strange balance effects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doctor Proctor, post: 5059558, member: 78547"] Not really. Even if it's a free action, it must meet the trigger of the cultist being dropped to 0HP, which means it can happen instantly after that trigger is met. Since applying damage is usually the [I]last[/I] part of resolving an attack, the critter is still gonna die after he does his death strike. Now, if it were an [I]immediate interrupt[/I], that's different. In that case, it would interrupt the action that caused the trigger (an attack in this case), and if it pushed away the offending attacker then it could nullify the attack (similar to what a Fighter can do when his Combat Challenge attack gets a push effect). That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense though, since then the cultist wouldn't be dead after his death strike, so I would imagine it's probably a free action, immediate reaction or just no action...anything else would have some strange balance effects. [/QUOTE]

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