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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Noctem" data-source="post: 6788975" data-attributes="member: 6801315">That's an interesting question.If you consider the spell to be cast successfully, and you're simply resolving the effects of having successfully cast the spell, it doesn't automatically mean that by incapacitating the caster you stop the spell's effects from finishing to resolve.  You can't counterspell once you start making creatures do saving throws vs Fireball.  By that time the caster is no longer casting the spell, it has been cast and is resolving its effects.  So for that same reasoning, if you stun a caster in between 2 attacks of eldritch blast, the caster is stunned but has already successfully cast the spell.  Does it stop?  If so why?  The problem I see is that targets are picked when you make an attack.  Can you still pick targets once you get stunned?  Obviously this a question specifically in regards to spells though and not the Attack Action + Extra Attack.  The only reason it's a question is because successfully casting the spell is a requirement for resolving the effects of a spell as a whole, vs the Attack Action has no such requirement.  Each attack is it's own thing. If you ready an action to trigger off casting a spell, and that spell is fireball.  Do you get to make your attack before the fireball's effects are resolved?  These aren't attacks after all.  And if you do get to make your attack first, before the saving throws and damage, which kills the caster:  Do you then nullify the entire spell even though it was successfully cast?  (ignoring Mage Slayer being a thing here for a moment) or does the fireball still fly but the caster is dead?I'm not sure right now where I land on this.  Stunning Palm is a limited resource, from a specific class, with a saving throw attached, which requires a hit (IIRC) and is restricted to melee attacks.  That's a bunch of hoops to jump through already.  My inclination is to allow the stunning to nullify a spell by stunning the caster.  As for death, I'm not as sure.</blockquote>

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