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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6774892" data-attributes="member: 61529">This is an interesting thing, because you appear to care a great deal how your posts make you look, and react with significant hostility if people inform you that they are not making you look the way you want to.Except that you are frequently just plain wrong about what the rules say, which makes you the wrong person to do this reminding.Except, again, so far as I can tell you're one of the worst offenders in this regard, frequently making things up and claiming that they are rules.This is why I think you are doing a better job of arguing for AB's position than AB is. You're arguing that there is no time between attacks, and if there's genuinely no time between them, it's conceptually impossible for the decision about what to target with the second beam to be made only after the result of the first beam is known.You seem to be conflating the posts of a number of different posters, with the net result being that you are thinking of things as being based on AB's "houserule" when they are, in fact, being offered as rebuttals to it, or at the very least alternative interpretations of the rules.My observation is that the rules for this game are often imprecise or informal or rely on general English terminology rather than rigid formal definitions. It's true that nothing in the rules defines the amount of time that occurs between attacks, but if you're allowed to evaluate the results of an attack before choosing how to make the next attack, there must be some kind of interval where you are observing things and thinking about them, even if it's a very very short hunk of time. And we have a general principle that, quite clearly, readied actions can take place between attacks, or during movement, after which the attacks or movement will continue (if they can).So if eldritch blast lets you make several attacks, and in general you can hit someone with a readied action between their attacks, it seems pretty reasonable to think that you can hit someone with a readied action between the attacks of eldritch blast. And if you can do that, we have a circumstance under which a readied action can actually take place during an "instantaneous" spell. And AB's theory is that this can't be possible because AB reads "instantaneous" as restricting the entire spell to being instantaneous (and thus precluding making choices based on the outcomes of the first attack when targeting the second). Me, I read "instantaneous" as just meaning "the spell's effect is complete once you've resolved it, and there's nothing still there to do anything to". But in the case of, say, eldritch blast's multiple attacks, it seems to me like there might actually be magic up during the attacks. It's just very rare for anyone to do anything at such a time. Especially because in general AoO and the like can't interrupt casting, meaning there's not much benefit to trying to ready actions against casters.</blockquote>

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