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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Trevor" data-source="post: 5735515" data-attributes="member: 82759">Wow, while Crown of Stars is unique and a bit confusing, I'm a bit surprised at the amount of back and forth it's caused this time around, but maybe that's because I've made so many assumptions about the power over the years <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> I went over what I thought the correct interpretation was for Crown of Stars and then ran it past Jeremy Crawford down in R&D. He corrected some of my assumptions and now I'm ready to lay it all out.So first things first - Jeremy pointed out to me that we will be updating the power in a future rules update. On to the clarifications!The bit about being blinded if you miss with the power is definitely wrong - sorry that wasn't caught in that second answer. It's in the hit line, so you have to hit to blind the bloodied foe.To answer the original question, the defense entries are correct. It's reflex for the primary, and will for the secondary. If you want to make a case for your DM to change it, I wish you the best of luck.Now as to the sustained discussion. When you sustain a power, you do exactly what it says in the entry line for sustaining that power. Sustaining does not automatically sustain whatever effect the power may have caused, though almost every power with sustain does something to an effect of the power. In order for an effect's duration to be sustained, the sustain entry must specifically mention this.In the case of Crown of Stars, sustaining (as a minor action) allows you to make a secondary attack. It does not maintain the blindness - it does exactly what the sustain entry states.Now the next wonky part is whether or not you can sustain and make a secondary attack if you miss the target with the original attack. A power has to set the parameters for sustaining its effects, and crown of stars fails to do so. As I mentioned earlier, we will address this in a future rules update, but in the meantime, the intent is that the power can be sustained whether or not the attack hits.For those of us having trouble understanding the power, it might be best to think of it as if it had an extra effect line that read "Effect: radiant starlight circles around your head." This way it makes sense that you're sustaining this effect, and using it to make an attack when you sustain.</blockquote>

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