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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4935904" data-attributes="member: 71571">And the PHB says:Conditional Durations: These effects last until a specified event occurs....Save Ends: The effect ends when the target makes a successful saving throw against it.Save ends durations explicitly end when a save is made.  By the book.  A Sustained duration allows you to extend an existing effect, but does not allow you to re-activate an effect that has ended.  And save ends -explicitly- ends the effect, according to the PHB.  As well, not spending an action to sustain an effect ends an effect, according to the PHB.I am well aware most people have the PHB.And those 'confusing warlock powers' that have save ends -and- sustain?  They explicitly tell you in the power how to deal with it.  In the PHB.However, -nothing- in sustained durations say you repeat instantaneous effects unless something tells you to do so.  -That- is not RAW, that's RAMade Up.  DM has the right to do that, and good on him if he does, but that's not what the book tells you should do, or can do.Pull 3 squares and damage are instantaneous effects, and cannot be 'extended'.  They can only be repeated, and you -only- do that when you are told sustaining does that.</blockquote>