Timeline for When exactly can a caster stop concentrating on a spell?
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| Jul 30, 2021 at 3:42 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @JustinTime-ReinstateMonica: Re: your first comment: not requiring an action (to do it on your turn) doesn't rule out choosing to spend an action readying a reaction to do it in a more "expensive" way (in the action economy), to gain control of the timing. The rule says "can", not "must". Mark Well's answer makes this point in more detail. | |
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| Jan 24, 2019 at 6:14 | comment | added | Justin Time - Reinstate Monica | @MarkWells That would be the "Concentration" section, on pg.203 of the PHB. "You can end concentration at any time (no action required)." As the "Reactions" section on pg.190 defines a reaction as a "special action", it by extension also states that a reaction (due to being a type of action) is not required to end concentration. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | Mark Wells | @JustinTime Please cite where this "explicitly as written" statement is explicitly written. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 19:32 | comment | added | Mark Wells | @V2Blast That's a typical Crawford non-answer: he doesn't actually say "yes, that means on someone else's turn", but he recites the rule, so it sounds like he affirmed whatever you already think the rule says. I don't know why he does this. | |
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 14:04 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @bash I'll need to look up that spell, thanks for the example. This is one of those gray areas/gaps that calls for a ruling. | |
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 13:56 | comment | added | Bash | A small support to your argument : A freezing sphere that is not "fired" as the spell completes... can then be thrown or hurled "at any time". Even if RAW, as a DM I wouldn't let this happen outside of turn. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 13:39 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @V2Blast This is a turn based game. Crawford's quote does not say that you an act outside of your turn if you don't have a reaction. That's why this calls for a ruling at the table. | |
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 13:32 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @JustinTime I explore that point, and do not demand use of a reaction; the problem is that this is a turn based game, and the mini time stop idea disrupts turn based play since the only thing explicitly stated as interrupting another's turn is a reaction. | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Justin Time - Reinstate Monica | Note that concentration can be ended without requiring any actions. Also note that a reaction is a type of action. Ergo, ending concentration explicitly cannot require or consume a reaction, as written. | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 20:12 | comment | added | V2Blast | I think it's unambiguous that you can drop concentration on someone else's turn. "Any time" means any time; if they'd meant you could only do it on your turn, they'd have said as much. In response to a question about dropping concentration outside of your turn, Crawford quotes the line from the rules that says, "You can end concentration at any time (no action required)." | |
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| Jan 20, 2019 at 17:40 | history | answered | KorvinStarmast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |