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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peter Gibbons" data-source="post: 2717978" data-attributes="member: 35541">The actions you declare on your "turn" represent what your character has been doing (or at least, trying to do) for the last six seconds.  So in a sense, yes, everything that happens in a round is happening at the same time--or more correctly, has already happened at some point during the last six seconds.The exact timing of various actions during a round is not important, however.  What's important is the order in which the actions are resolved.  For example, an orc fighting a human may try to Sunder the human's longsword, provoking an attack of opportunity from the human.  If the human's attack of opportunity kills the orc, the orc never actually makes the Sunder attack.  How is that possible?  If the orc doesn't make the Sunder attack, how can it provoke an attack of opportunity?The answer is: because the system doesn't care when (or even if) a given action occurs, only when it is resolved.  The human's attack of opportunity is triggered by the orc's Sunder attack, which was declared first, but is resolved second.So to take your example of the paralyzed barbarian and the potion, the event of the barbarian recovering from being paralyzed is resolved before the event of the potion being poured down his gullet.  And that's all you have to worry about.(I do not address the issue of whether a paralyzed subject can swallow a potion or not, as it is moot.)</blockquote>

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