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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3873243" data-attributes="member: 1656">And given that the selection of the location for the fireball doesn't occur until the spell comes into effect, isn't the area the fireball encompasses similarly part of the resolution of the action?If you and your friend were both threatened by the ogre, and you had an ready action to move triggered by "If he attacks me", then his attack against you would trigger your ready, you would move, and he would be unable to resolve his attack; similarly, he would not be able to use that attack on your friend, as it was an attack against you that triggered that readied action.  (Beware, of course, that your movement might provoke an AoO that occurs before your movement that occurs before his original attack!)Similarly, if you and your friend were both some distance from an ogre, and you had an ready action to move triggered by "If he throws a javelin at me", then his attack against you would trigger your ready... but because the triggered action precedes the triggering action, he hasn't actually made his attack at the time you move.  If you move somewhere he can still reach with his throw, he can throw it at you anyway (though not at your friend) after you've moved; if you move somewhere he can't, he's spent a standard action on his attack, but he need not release the javelin.Because the readied action precedes the triggering action, you don't end up moving while the missile is in mid-flight.Just as with the fireball - you either move when he starts casting (triggering off his action), or you don't; there isn't a mechanic to move after the bead leaves his hand but before it reaches the point of origin of the spread.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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