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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Markn" data-source="post: 2685431" data-attributes="member: 21827">Andargor,I am at work so don't have time to check for SRD or PHB for exact evidence but I believe there is no reason why you couldn't cast the delayed blast fireball immediately like a normal fireball which would in turn give it an instantaneous effect.In regards to your uneasiness to my delaying initiative, I'll admit it is a sticky interpretation on my part but to be honest I don't see why not.  First, by getting back to back real time actions you are sacrificing 1 round of time stop (as your last action bleeds into the non time stop initiative point).  I don't see this as being a game breaker in any way (although with some combos can be really really powerful - and sure it can be abused but so can a lot of things in the game).  Second, I see Time Stop as sandwiching rounds in between a normal time round and the next time round.  So these are just extra rounds in which you can act albeit with some limitations.  However, delaying your inititive count isn't one of them.  Furthermore, if you delay and then summon monsters they need to act at that initiative point.  That means outside of Time Stop they should act at the same initiative number.FWIW, I called WotC on this to see if it seemed legal and in fact I have called them several times because sometimes there are some real idiots.  Everyone I talked to supported this action.Maybe by the RAW, someone here sees something I don't but Time Stop is 9th level so why not....Oh, one last thing, don't effects happen at the beginning of the initiative count before anyone acts in the round?  If something like DBF is supposed to go boom on count 14 and a player acts on count 14 doesn't the boom happen first and then player actions get resovled.  OK, last thing this time...I'm not so sure you can say what initiative tick the boom happens.  Most everything happens in conjuntion with your initiative so I think you only have the choice of choosing it to go boom on round 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 but not which count.  I can't think of any other spell that works this way (this also excludes spells that have effects that trigger on another persons turn such as taking damage from the spell because almost all spells I can think of still end on your init count).  Hope that makes sense.</blockquote>

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