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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Regicide" data-source="post: 4774907" data-attributes="member: 67552">Resolving is a different word than using and is a better but longer.  Resolving the use of a power is not using.   Use a power is an action, not an action type.  Again, those are actions, not action types.  Resolving doesn't mean using.  Those aren't the same things and shouldn't be used for comparison for instance if your "walking" gets interrupted, you may lose a square of movement, you don't lose your entire walk action like you do if the target of your power becomes invalid.  The reason should be clear, a power is used as soon as you use it regardless of how it ends up being resolved.   I have a pretty clear idea of what use a power means.  It may not be perfect understanding but at least I know it's not an action type.   To support your argument this quote would have to say "while using", it, if anything, supports mine.    I think it's pretty obvious that the phrase "using" is inexact and being used in preference to more complicated wording.  "While resolving" would be more exact although it doesn't sound right for sustained powers which "feels" like you're using it and not just resolving.  Anyway, stateless instant use powers are far cleaner rules-wise and match better with the current rules, such as interrupts and recovered powers.  You don't have to wonder if you can recover a power (with demigod for instance) that you are currently "using" because "using" is undefined and may include "sustained" or "duration" or "until the trigger happens" or "until I roll the dice on next round's damage" or "until end of encounter when I stop making attacks with the area of effect" etc.</blockquote>

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