Can an enemy take a reaction if you target them during time stop?
Say a character casts time stop on themselves. While the spell is active they target another creature with a spell (thus ending the time stop). Can that targeted character make a reaction to the spell?
eg. if the time stopped character cast finger of death at the enemy could they:
- Counterspell it.
- Try to reduce the damage from it.
- Retaliate using hellish rebuke.
dnd-5e spells time reactions
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Say a character casts time stop on themselves. While the spell is active they target another creature with a spell (thus ending the time stop). Can that targeted character make a reaction to the spell?
eg. if the time stopped character cast finger of death at the enemy could they:
- Counterspell it.
- Try to reduce the damage from it.
- Retaliate using hellish rebuke.
dnd-5e spells time reactions
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
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Related: Do reactions interrupt their triggers or not?
– Mark Wells
2 hours ago
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Say a character casts time stop on themselves. While the spell is active they target another creature with a spell (thus ending the time stop). Can that targeted character make a reaction to the spell?
eg. if the time stopped character cast finger of death at the enemy could they:
- Counterspell it.
- Try to reduce the damage from it.
- Retaliate using hellish rebuke.
dnd-5e spells time reactions
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
4786
Say a character casts time stop on themselves. While the spell is active they target another creature with a spell (thus ending the time stop). Can that targeted character make a reaction to the spell?
eg. if the time stopped character cast finger of death at the enemy could they:
- Counterspell it.
- Try to reduce the damage from it.
- Retaliate using hellish rebuke.
dnd-5e spells time reactions
dnd-5e spells time reactions
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
4786
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
4786
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
4786
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
4786
asked 5 hours ago
Allan Mills
4786
4786
Related: Do reactions interrupt their triggers or not?
– Mark Wells
2 hours ago
add a comment |
Related: Do reactions interrupt their triggers or not?
– Mark Wells
2 hours ago
Related: Do reactions interrupt their triggers or not?
– Mark Wells
2 hours ago
Related: Do reactions interrupt their triggers or not?
– Mark Wells
2 hours ago
add a comment |
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Time stop ends if you "affect" another creature by your actions.
So, in order:
Counterspell, no. That would have to be done before the spell takes effect.
"Try to reduce the damage", depends. Consider shield: you use it after being "hit" by an attack, but if it turns the attack into a miss, then the attack didn't hit you, so you're still time-stopped and you couldn't have cast the spell. So no, you can't. On the other hand, absorb elements has to be cast after you take damage, which suggests it may work. That's right on the edge though; I could see a DM ruling that since it reduces damage from present and future attacks but not from the past, it logically must be cast before the damage happens.
Hellish rebuke, yes. It happens after the damage has been rolled and applied.
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Time stop ends if you "affect" another creature by your actions.
So, in order:
Counterspell, no. That would have to be done before the spell takes effect.
"Try to reduce the damage", depends. Consider shield: you use it after being "hit" by an attack, but if it turns the attack into a miss, then the attack didn't hit you, so you're still time-stopped and you couldn't have cast the spell. So no, you can't. On the other hand, absorb elements has to be cast after you take damage, which suggests it may work. That's right on the edge though; I could see a DM ruling that since it reduces damage from present and future attacks but not from the past, it logically must be cast before the damage happens.
Hellish rebuke, yes. It happens after the damage has been rolled and applied.
answered 3 hours ago
Mark Wells
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Time stop ends if you "affect" another creature by your actions.
So, in order:
Counterspell, no. That would have to be done before the spell takes effect.
"Try to reduce the damage", depends. Consider shield: you use it after being "hit" by an attack, but if it turns the attack into a miss, then the attack didn't hit you, so you're still time-stopped and you couldn't have cast the spell. So no, you can't. On the other hand, absorb elements has to be cast after you take damage, which suggests it may work. That's right on the edge though; I could see a DM ruling that since it reduces damage from present and future attacks but not from the past, it logically must be cast before the damage happens.
Hellish rebuke, yes. It happens after the damage has been rolled and applied.
answered 3 hours ago
Mark Wells
4,8191333
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Time stop ends if you "affect" another creature by your actions.
So, in order:
Counterspell, no. That would have to be done before the spell takes effect.
"Try to reduce the damage", depends. Consider shield: you use it after being "hit" by an attack, but if it turns the attack into a miss, then the attack didn't hit you, so you're still time-stopped and you couldn't have cast the spell. So no, you can't. On the other hand, absorb elements has to be cast after you take damage, which suggests it may work. That's right on the edge though; I could see a DM ruling that since it reduces damage from present and future attacks but not from the past, it logically must be cast before the damage happens.
Hellish rebuke, yes. It happens after the damage has been rolled and applied.
answered 3 hours ago
Mark Wells
4,8191333
Time stop ends if you "affect" another creature by your actions.
So, in order:
Counterspell, no. That would have to be done before the spell takes effect.
"Try to reduce the damage", depends. Consider shield: you use it after being "hit" by an attack, but if it turns the attack into a miss, then the attack didn't hit you, so you're still time-stopped and you couldn't have cast the spell. So no, you can't. On the other hand, absorb elements has to be cast after you take damage, which suggests it may work. That's right on the edge though; I could see a DM ruling that since it reduces damage from present and future attacks but not from the past, it logically must be cast before the damage happens.
Hellish rebuke, yes. It happens after the damage has been rolled and applied.
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