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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6770440" data-attributes="member: 16814">No, I'm not attaching simulation oriented questions.&nbsp; I'm asking game mechanics -- if eldritch blast is shoot-look-shoot, and the caster can make decisions in the 'look' phase of the spell, then it stands to reason that it should operate like other 'look' abilities, neh?&nbsp; In particular, if you can react using a readied action to individual attacks in an attack action, and using the exact same mechanics as eldritch blast individual attacks, then eldritch blast should operate the same way in all regards, meaning you could 'interrupt' the cast a spell action because you're just stepping in between the individual attacks.As for time, my only point is that there has to be some time in there to 'look' and for effects to take place, not that I wanted some specific description or quantification of said time.&nbsp; If there's time in between to 'look', there time for other things to possibly happen, like a reaction to a discrete event.&nbsp; If you rule that nothing else can happen in the 'look' phases other than the caster making other targeting decisions, then you're not being consistent with the attack rules.&nbsp; And if you can't interrupt between attacks with a readied action, then you're implicitly accepting that you can have a readied action to attack someone if they attack you, and they can declare an attack action, attack you, then move 20' away and attack someone else with their extra attack, and you can't do anything about it (for sake of argument, they have the mobile feat) because you can't interrupt their attack action and they weren't done with it yet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 6770440, member: 16814"] No, I'm not attaching simulation oriented questions. I'm asking game mechanics -- if eldritch blast is shoot-look-shoot, and the caster can make decisions in the 'look' phase of the spell, then it stands to reason that it should operate like other 'look' abilities, neh? In particular, if you can react using a readied action to individual attacks in an attack action, and using the exact same mechanics as eldritch blast individual attacks, then eldritch blast should operate the same way in all regards, meaning you could 'interrupt' the cast a spell action because you're just stepping in between the individual attacks. As for time, my only point is that there has to be some time in there to 'look' and for effects to take place, not that I wanted some specific description or quantification of said time. If there's time in between to 'look', there time for other things to possibly happen, like a reaction to a discrete event. If you rule that nothing else can happen in the 'look' phases other than the caster making other targeting decisions, then you're not being consistent with the attack rules. And if you can't interrupt between attacks with a readied action, then you're implicitly accepting that you can have a readied action to attack someone if they attack you, and they can declare an attack action, attack you, then move 20' away and attack someone else with their extra attack, and you can't do anything about it (for sake of argument, they have the mobile feat) because you can't interrupt their attack action and they weren't done with it yet. [/QUOTE]

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