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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aulirophile" data-source="post: 5439158" data-attributes="member: 86312">The Ranger can decide to use Disruptive on a given attack roll, but it only interrupts the given attack roll in the sequence. If he kills the creature no damage is done not because it wasn't done in the sequence, but because Interrupts can specifically invalidate the entire action that contains their trigger. Jackal's Strike, however, could not  invalidate as a response to DS unless it was on the first attack roll, because it is not an Interrupt and therefore lacks this exception. So in your example if the Ranger DSed the Barbarian, the Fighter could use JS to invalidate. If he DSed himself, the Fighter could only invalidate the damage to the Ranger.Where you are currently wrong, by RAW, is the timing of Curtain of Steel. Reactions now resolve immediately after their trigger, even if that trigger is contained inside another action (RC 197). The trigger is "hit or miss" which is step 4. Curtain of Steel goes off between steps 4 and 5 of the attack process. If CoS kills the Bloodhound, no damage is done to the Barbarian, but damage would be done to the Fighter and Ranger if those attack rolls had been made first, because Reactions do not have the special ability to invalidate entire actions (except for move actions, under the right circumstances, but that is explicitly spelled out). That is the current RAW. I expect some clarification or errata at some point because it causes... oddities, and isn't exactly RAI imo. Your suggested order of events is probably closer to RAI, but is not currently supported by the very explicit order the RC has given us for attacks, Interrupts, Reactions, Free Actions, and Triggers.</blockquote>

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