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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1645058" data-attributes="member: 1465">In the combat chapter, Delay is said to be &quot;not an action&quot;. However it doesn't make much sense that also a 5ft-step is under &quot;not an action&quot; in the SRD table&nbsp; :\ I think the intended point of being stunned is that the character can not do anything for a round (attack, cast, move) including mental actions. However what comes out from the RAW is not that simple... I am not 100% sure for example if you can make AoO (if you can make unarmed AoO).The condition of being stunned starts when the opponent stuns you and end at her next turn (if duration is 1 round). Again I think the intention is to make it work so that it exactly make the target idle for 1 round of initiative, after which she is no longer stunned but has to wait her own initiative before doing anything else (that is, no delay is possible).However, even your DM's ruling makes sense, that when the target is no longer stunned she could immediately react and act at that new initiative (more or less equivalent to say that she delayed the whole time). I don't think this ruling makes a problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1645058, member: 1465"] In the combat chapter, Delay is said to be "not an action". However it doesn't make much sense that also a 5ft-step is under "not an action" in the SRD table :\ I think the intended point of being stunned is that the character can not do anything for a round (attack, cast, move) including mental actions. However what comes out from the RAW is not that simple... I am not 100% sure for example if you can make AoO (if you can make unarmed AoO). The condition of being stunned starts when the opponent stuns you and end at her next turn (if duration is 1 round). Again I think the intention is to make it work so that it exactly make the target idle for 1 round of initiative, after which she is no longer stunned but has to wait her own initiative before doing anything else (that is, no delay is possible). However, even your DM's ruling makes sense, that when the target is no longer stunned she could immediately react and act at that new initiative (more or less equivalent to say that she delayed the whole time). I don't think this ruling makes a problem. [/QUOTE]

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