RANGED ATTACK

✦ Targeted: Ranged attacks target individuals. A ranged attack against multiple enemies consists of separate attacks, each with its own attack roll and damage roll. Ranged attacks don’t create areas of effect (page 272). If you’re using a projectile weapon to make a ranged attack against multiple targets, you need one piece of ammunition for each target, and if you’re using thrown weapons, you need one for each target.

✦ Range: Some powers set a specific range (“Ranged 10”) or allow you to attack any target you can see (“Ranged sight”). If you’re using a weapon, the attack’s range is the range of your weapon, as shown on the Ranged Weapons table in Chapter 7. Long Range: If you use a ranged weapon and your target is farther away than the weapon’s normal range but within its long range, you take a –2 penalty to your attack roll. You can’t hit a target beyond the weapon’s long range. A ranged power that doesn’t use a weapon has a normal range but no long range.

✦ Provoke Opportunity Attacks: If you use a ranged power while adjacent to an enemy, that enemy can make an opportunity attack against you.

A close attack is an area of effect that comes directly from you; its origin square is within your space. Swinging your sword in an arc to hit every enemy next to you with one blow, creating a blast of fire from your hands, or causing radiant energy to burst from your holy symbol—these are all examples of close attacks. Close attacks include two basic categories of powers: weapon attacks that damage multiple enemies with one swing, and powers created from energy that flows directly from your body or an object you carry.

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CLOSE ATTACK

✦ Area of Effect: A close attack creates an area of effect, usually a blast or a burst. A close attack affects certain targets within its area of effect, which has a certain size. A close attack’s area of effect and targets are specified in its power description (see Chapter 4).

✦ Origin Square: A close attack’s area of effect defines the attack’s origin square, which is the attack’s starting point. A close burst uses your space as its origin square. A close blast uses a square within your space as its origin square. For a target to be affected by a close attack, there must be line of effect from the origin square to the target (see “Seeing and Targeting,” page 273).

✦ Multiple Attack Rolls but One Damage Roll: When you make a close attack, you make a separate attack roll against each target in the area of effect, but you make a single damage roll that affects all the targets. A Large or larger creature hit by a close attack is affected only once by the attack, even if multiple squares of the creature’s space are in the area of effect. If you’re using a projectile weapon to make a close attack, you need one piece of ammunition for each target, and if you’re using thrown weapons, you need one for each target.

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AREA ATTACK

Area attacks are similar to close attacks, except that the origin square can be some distance away from you. An area attack’s area of effect sets the shape of the attack and the targets it affects. A ball of fire that streaks across the battlefield and explodes is an example of an area attack. A magical wall of fog that springs from the ground to obscure a dungeon corridor is another example. Area attacks include two categories of powers: projectiles that detonate in their origin squares and effects that appear far away from you and fill an area.

AREA ATTACK
✦ Area of Effect: An area attack creates an area of effect, usually a burst or a wall, within range. An area attack affects certain targets within its area of effect, which has a certain size. An area attack’s area of effect, range, and targets are specified in its power description (see Chapter 4).

✦ Origin Square: You choose a square within an area attack’s range as the attack’s origin square, which is where you center or start the area of effect. You need line of effect from a square in your space to the origin square (see “Seeing and Targeting,” page 273). For a target to be affected by an area attack, there needs to be line of effect from the origin square to the target. You don’t have to be able to see the origin square or the target, and concealment (page 281) between the origin square and the target doesn’t apply.

✦ Multiple Attack Rolls but One Damage Roll: When you make an area attack, you make a separate attack roll against each target in the area of effect, but you make a single damage roll that affects all the targets. A Large or larger creature hit by an area attack is affected only once by the attack, even if multiple squares of the creature’s space are in the area of effect. If you’re using a projectile weapon to make an area attack, you need one piece of ammunition for each target, and if you’re using thrown weapons, you need one for each target.

✦ Provoke Opportunity Attacks: If you use an area power while adjacent to an enemy, that enemy can make an opportunity attack against you.

Most area attacks and close attacks have one of three areas of effect: a blast, a burst, or a wall.

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AREAS OF EFFECT

✦ Blast: A blast fills an area adjacent to you that is a specified number of squares on a side. For example, the wizard power thunderwave is a blast 3, which means the power affects a 3-square-by-3-square area adjacent to you. The blast must be adjacent to its origin square, which is a square in your space. The origin square is not affected by the blast. A blast affects a target only if the target is in the blast’s area and if there is line of effect from the origin square to the target.

✦ Burst: A burst starts in an origin square and extends in all directions to a specified number of squares from the origin square. For example, the cleric power flame strike is a burst 2 within 10 squares of you, which means the power originates in a square up to 10 squares away from you and affects the origin square and every square within 2 squares of it (a 5-square-by-5-square area). Unless a power description notes otherwise, a close burst you create does not affect you. However, an area burst you create does affect you. A burst affects a target only if there is line of effect from the burst’s origin square to the target.

✦ Wall: A wall fills a specified number of contiguous squares within range, starting from an origin square. Each square of the wall must share a side—not just a corner—with at least one other square of the wall, but a square can share no more than two sides with other squares in the wall (this limitation does not apply when stacking squares on top of each other). You can shape the wall however you like within those limitations. A solid wall, such as a wall of ice, cannot be created in occupied squares.

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CHOOSING ATTACKS

If you want to use a power against an enemy, the enemy must be within the range of your power, and you have to be able to target the enemy. Many powers allow you to target multiple enemies. Each of these enemies must be an eligible target. When you use a melee attack or a ranged attack, you can target a square instead of an enemy. This tactic is useful when an enemy has total concealment (page 281) and you have to guess its location. The first step in choosing targets for an attack is to check the attack’s range. Range is the distance from you to a target (or to the attack’s origin square). The range of each power is noted in its description. To determine the range between you and a target, count the number of squares between you, including at least one square that the target occupies. If a target’s space is larger than 1 square, you can target that enemy if any square of its space is within range or within the area of effect of your attack. Counting Distance: When counting the distance from one square to another, start counting from any adjacent square (even one that is diagonally adjacent but around a corner) and then count around solid obstacles that fill their squares. You must choose the most direct path to a target when counting squares for range or when determining the extent of an area of effect. Adjacent Squares: Two squares are adjacent if a side or a corner of one touches a side or a corner of the other. Two creatures or objects are adjacent if one of them occupies a square adjacent to a square occupied by the other. Nearest Creature or Square: To determine the nearest creature or square to you, count distance normally. When two or more squares or creatures are equally close, you can pick either one as the nearest. Personal: When you use a power with a range of personal, you affect only yourself. Examples include creating magic armor on yourself or giving yourself the ability to fly. Cluttered dungeon chambers, dense forests, or brooding ruins offer plenty of places for your enemies to hide. Figuring out whether you can see and target a particular enemy from where you’re standing is often important. Line of Sight: The first question is what you can see in an encounter area—that is, what is in your line of sight. To determine whether you can see a target, pick a corner of your space and trace an imaginary line from that corner to any part of the target’s space. You can see the target if at least one line doesn’t pass through or touch an object or an effect—such as a wall, a thick curtain, or a cloud of fog—that blocks your vision. Even if you can see a target, objects and effects can still partially block your view. If you can see a target but at least one line passes through an obstruction, the target has cover or concealment (page 280). You can see a gnoll archer crouching behind a rock wall, but the wall makes him more difficult to hit, because the wall gives him cover. You can see a goblin standing at the edge of a fog cloud, but the fog makes him a shadowy figure, giving him concealment. Line of Effect: You can target a creature or a square if there’s an unblocked path between it and you—that is, if you have line of effect to it. If every imaginary line you trace to a target passes through or touches a solid obstacle, you don’t have line of effect to the target. Fog, darkness, and other types of obscured squares block vision, but they don’t block line of effect. If you hurl a fireball into a pitch-black room, you don’t have to see your enemies for the fireball to hit them. In contrast, you can see through a transparent wall of magical force, but you don’t have line of effect through it. You can see the snarling demon on the other side, but the wall blocks attacks. You need line of effect to any target you attack and to any space in which you wish to create an effect. When you make an area attack, you need line of effect to the attack’s origin square. To hit a target with the attack, there must be line of effect from the origin square to the target.

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ATTACK ROLL

To determine whether an attack succeeds, you make an attack roll. You roll a d20 and add your base attack bonus for that power. A power’s base attack bonus measures your accuracy with that attack and is the total of all modifiers that normally apply to it.

ATTACK ROLL Roll 1d20 and add the following:

✦ The attack power’s base attack bonus

✦ Situational attack modifiers (page 279) that apply

✦ Bonuses and penalties from powers affecting you

Your base attack bonus can change temporarily in certain circumstances, such as when you’re affected by a power that gives you an attack bonus or penalty, when a feat or a magic item gives you a bonus in certain circumstances, or when attack modifiers apply (page 279).

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ATTACK BONUSES

When you create your character, you should determine your base attack bonus for each power you know, including your basic attacks. Your base attack bonus for a power includes the following:

✦ One-half your level

✦ The ability score modifier used for the attack (the power you use specifies which ability) In addition, any of the following factors might apply to an attack’s base attack bonus:

✦ Your weapon’s proficiency bonus (if you’re using a weapon you’re proficient with)

✦ Racial or feat bonuses

✦ An enhancement bonus (usually from a magic weapon or an implement)

✦ An item bonus

✦ A power bonus

✦ Untyped bonuses

Example: Melech, a 7th-level tiefling wizard, attempts to hit three enemies with fireball, an Intelligence vs. Reflex attack. His attack roll against each target gets a +10 bonus, which includes +3 for one-half his level, his +5 Intelligence modifier, the +1 feat bonus from Hellfire Blood, and the +1 enhancement bonus from his +1 wand of witchfire. He could add a +2 bonus from his Wand of Accuracy class feature against one of his targets and a +1 racial bonus against any bloodied targets from his Bloodhunt racial trait.

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DEFENSES

Your ability to avoid injury and other ill effects is measured by four defenses: Armor Class, Fortitude, Reflex, and Will. Your defense scores rate how hard it is for an enemy to affect you with attacks. Armor Class (AC) measures how hard it is for your enemies to land a significant blow on you with a weapon or a magical effect that works like a weapon. Some characters have a high AC because they are extremely quick or intelligent and able to dodge well, while other characters have a high AC because they wear heavy protective armor that is difficult to penetrate. Fortitude measures the inherent toughness, mass, strength, and resilience of your physique. It is the key defense against attacks that include effects such as disease, poison, and forced movement. Reflex measures your ability to predict attacks or to deflect or dodge an attack. It’s useful against areas of effect such as dragon breath or a fireball spell. Will is your defense against effects that daze, disorient, confuse, or overpower your mind. It measures your strength of will, self-discipline, and devotion.

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DEFENSE SCORES

You determine your defense scores as follows.

✦ Base Defense: All defenses start with 10 + one-half your level.

✦ Armor Class: Add the armor bonus of the armor you wear and the shield bonus of the shield you carry. If you’re wearing light armor or no armor, also add your Dexterity modifier or Intelligence modifier, whichever is higher.

✦ Fortitude: Add your Strength modifier or Constitution modifier, whichever is higher.

✦ Reflex: Add your Dexterity modifier or Intelligence modifier, whichever is higher. If you’re using a shield, add its shield bonus.

✦ Will: Add your Wisdom modifier or Charisma modifier, whichever is higher. Also add any of the following that apply:

✦ Racial or feat bonuses

✦ An enhancement bonus (usually from a neck slot magic item)

✦ An item bonus

✦ A power bonus

✦ Untyped bonuses

Your defenses can change temporarily in certain circumstances—for instance, if you’re affected by a power or condition that increases or lowers your defense scores, or if a feat or a magic item gives you a bonus under certain circumstances. Example: Brandis, a 23rd-level human fighter, has the following defenses. AC 38 = 10 + 11 (one-half level) + 11 (armor bonus from warplate armor) + 2 (shield bonus from a heavy shield) + 4 (enhancement bonus from +4 battleforged armor). Reflex 31 = 10 + 11 (one-half level) + 1 (racial bonus) + 2 (Dexterity modifier) + 2 (shield bonus from a heavy shield) + 5 (enhancement bonus from cloak of resistance +5). Fortitude 35 = 10 + 11 (one-half level) + 1 (racial bonus) + 2 (fighter class) + 6 (Strength modifier) + 5 (enhancement bonus from cloak of resistance +5) Will 31 = 10 + 11 (one-half level) + 1 (racial bonus) + 2 (Wisdom modifier) + 2 (feat bonus from Iron Will) + 5 (enhancement bonus from cloak of resistance +5) When Brandis’s warlord ally uses her hallowed ground power, he gains a +2 power bonus to all defenses when he stands within the power’s zone.

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ATTACK RESULTS

You resolve an attack by comparing the total of your attack roll (1d20 + base attack bonus + attack modifiers) to the appropriate defense score. If your roll is higher than or equal to the defense score, you hit. Otherwise, you miss. When you hit, you usually deal damage and sometimes produce some other effect. When you’re using a power, the power description tells you what happens when you hit. Some descriptions also say what happens when you miss or when you score a critical hit.

ATTACK RESULTS

When you make an attack, compare your attack roll to the appropriate defense score of the target.

✦ Hit: If the attack roll is higher than or equal to the defense score, the attack hits and deals damage, has a special effect, or both. Automatic Hit: If you roll a natural 20 (the die shows a 20), your attack automatically hits. Critical Hit: If you roll a natural 20 (the die shows a 20), your attack might be a critical hit (page 278). A critical hit deals maximum damage, and some powers and magic items have an extra effect on a critical hit.

✦ Miss: If your attack roll is lower than the defense score, the attack misses. Usually, there’s no effect. Some powers have an effect on a miss, such as dealing half damage. Automatic Miss: If you roll a natural 1 (the die shows a 1), your attack automatically misses.

When you hit with an attack, you normally deal damage to your target, reducing the target’s hit points. The damage you deal depends on the power you use for the attack. Most powers deal more damage than basic attacks do, and high-level powers generally deal more damage than low-level ones. If you use a weapon to make the attack, your weapon also affects your damage. If you use a greataxe to deliver a power, you deal more damage than if you use a dagger with the same power.

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DAMAGE ROLLS

✦ Roll the damage indicated in the power description. If you’re using a weapon for the attack, the damage is some multiple of your weapon damage dice.

✦ Add the ability modifier specified in the power description. Usually, this is the same ability modifier you used to determine your base attack bonus for the attack. In addition, any of the following factors might apply to a damage roll:

✦ Racial or feat bonuses

✦ An enhancement bonus (usually from a magic weapon or an implement)

✦ An item bonus

✦ A power bonus

✦ Untyped bonuses

Weapon Damage Dice: A [W] in a damage expression stands for your weapon’s damage dice. (The weapon tables on pages 218–219 show damage dice for all weapons.) The number before the [W] indicates the number of times you roll your weapon dice. If a power’s damage is “2[W] + Strength modifier” and you use a dagger (1d4 damage), roll 2d4, then add your Strength modifier. If you use a heavy flail (2d6 damage) with the same power, roll 4d6, then add your Strength modifier. Damage Types: In addition to normal damage, such as the damage a weapon or a monster’s claws deal, powers and other effects can deal specific types of damage. For example, a hell hound’s breath deals fire damage, a scorpion’s sting deals poison damage, a mind flayer’s telepathic blast deals psychic damage, and a wraith’s touch deals necrotic damage. When a power deals a specific type of damage, the power description specifies the type before the word “damage.” A fireball deals 3d6 + Intelligence modifier fire damage, for example. All the damage it deals is fire damage. If a power doesn’t specify a damage type, the damage has no type. Example: Valenae. a 12th-level eladrin paladin, hits a foe with thunder smite. The attack deals 2[W] + Strength modifier thunder damage and knocks the target prone. The damage would be 2d8 (longsword’s 1d8 × 2) + 7. The +7 bonus includes her +3 Strength modifier, a +2 feat bonus (Weapon Focus), and a +2 enhancement bonus (from her +2 thundering longsword). If she scores a critical hit, she deals maximum damage of 23 points and adds 2d6 thunder damage from her thundering longsword. If she wanted to use her thundering longword’s encounter power on this hit, she would add 10 thunder damage and push 1. Some creatures are resistant or vulnerable to certain types of damage. Some powers can grant you a similar resistance, or impose vulnerability on an enemy. Resist: Resistance means you take less damage from a specific damage type. If you have resist 5 fire, then any time you take fire damage, you reduce that damage by 5. (An attack can’t do less than 0 damage to you.) Vulnerable: Being vulnerable to a damage type means you take extra damage from that damage type. If you have vulnerable 5 fire, then any time you take fire damage, you take an additional 5 fire damage. Some creatures have additional weaknesses tied to damage types. For example, if you use cold against an elemental made of magma, you might slow it or otherwise hinder its moves or attacks. Powers, monsters, traps, and the environment can all cause conditions. A condition imposes a penalty, a vulnerability, a hindrance, or a combination of effects. The Remove Affliction ritual (page 311) can be useful for eliminating a long-lasting condition that affects you.

BLINDED

✦ You grant combat advantage.

✦ You can’t see any target (your targets have total concealment).

✦ You take a –10 penalty to Perception checks.

✦ You can’t flank an enemy.

DAZED

✦ You grant combat advantage.

✦ You can take either a standard action, a move action, or a minor action on your turn (you can also take free actions). You can’t take immediate actions or opportunity actions.

✦ You can’t flank an enemy.

DEAFENED

✦ You can’t hear anything.

✦ You take a –10 penalty to Perception checks.

DOMINATED

✦ You’re dazed.

✦ The dominating creature chooses your action. The only powers it can make you use are at-will powers.

DYING

✦ You’re unconscious.

✦ You’re at 0 or negative hit points.

✦ You make a death saving throw every round.

HELPLESS

✦ You grant combat advantage.

✦ You can be the target of a coup de grace. Note: Usually you’re helpless because you’re unconscious.

IMMOBILIZED

✦ You can’t move from your space, although you can teleport and can be forced to move by a pull, a push, or a slide.

MARKED

✦ You take a –2 penalty to attack rolls for any attack that doesn’t target the creature that marked you.

PETRIFIED

✦ You have been turned to stone.

✦ You can’t take actions

✦ You gain resist 20 to all damage.

✦ You are unaware of your surroundings.

✦ You don’t age.

PRONE

✦ You grant combat advantage to enemies making melee attacks against you.

✦ You get a +2 bonus to all defenses against ranged attacks from nonadjacent enemies.

✦ You’re lying on the ground. (If you’re flying, you safely descend a distance equal to your fly speed. If you don’t reach the ground, you fall.)

✦ You take a –2 penalty to attack rolls.

✦ You can drop prone as a minor action.

RESTRAINED

✦ You grant combat advantage.

✦ You’re immobilized.

✦ You can’t be forced to move by a pull, a push, or a slide.

✦ You take a –2 penalty to attack rolls.

SLOWED

✦ Your speed becomes 2. This speed applies to all your movement modes, but it does not apply to teleportation or to a pull, a push, or a slide. You can’t increase your speed above 2, and your speed doesn’t increase if it was lower than 2. If you’re slowed while moving, stop moving if you have already moved 2 or more squares.

STUNNED

✦ You grant combat advantage.

✦ You can’t take actions.

✦ You can’t flank an enemy.

SURPRISED

✦ You grant combat advantage.

✦ You can’t take actions, other than free actions.

✦ You can’t flank an enemy.

UNCONSCIOUS

✦ You’re helpless.

✦ You take a –5 penalty to all defenses.

✦ You can’t take actions.

✦ You fall prone, if possible.

✦ You can’t flank an enemy.

WEAKENED

✦ Your attacks deal half damage. Ongoing damage you deal is not affected.

Some creatures, such as wailing ghosts, are insubstantial, and some powers can make you insubstantial. When you are insubstantial, you take half damage from any attack that deals damage to you. Ongoing damage is also halved. Some powers deal extra damage on consecutive turns after the initial attack. An efreet might hit you with a burst of fire that sets you alight, dealing ongoing fire damage. When a snake’s venom courses through your blood, it deals ongoing poison damage. A mummy’s rotting touch deals ongoing necrotic damage, and a kruthik’s corrosive spittle deals ongoing acid damage.

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ONGOING DAMAGE

✦ Start of Your Turn: You take the specified damage at the start of your turn. Example: If you’re taking ongoing 5 fire damage, you take 5 points of fire damage at the start of your turn.

✦ Saving Throw: Each round at the end of your turn, make a saving throw (page 279) against ongoing damage. If you succeed, you stop taking the ongoing damage.

✦ Different Types of Ongoing Damage: If effects deal ongoing damage of different types, you take damage from each effect every round. You make a separate saving throw against each damage type.

✦ The Same Type of Ongoing Damage: If effects deal ongoing damage of the same type, or if the damage has no type, only the higher number applies. Example: You’re taking ongoing 5 damage (no type) when a power causes you to take ongoing 10 damage. You’re now taking ongoing 10 damage, not 15.

When you roll a natural 20 and your total attack roll is high enough to hit your target’s defense, you score a critical hit, also known as a crit.

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CRITICAL HIT DAMAGE

✦ Natural 20: If you roll a 20 on the die when making an attack roll, you score a critical hit if your total attack roll is high enough to hit your target’s defense. If your attack roll is too low to score a critical hit, you still hit automatically.

✦ Precision: Some class features and powers allow you to score a critical hit when you roll numbers other than 20 (only a natural 20 is an automatic hit).

✦ Maximum Damage: Rather than roll damage, determine the maximum damage you can roll with your attack. This is your critical damage. (Attacks that don’t deal damage still don’t deal damage on a critical hit.)

✦ Extra Damage: Magic weapons and implements, as well as high crit weapons, can increase the damage you deal when you score a critical hit. If this extra damage is a die roll, it’s not automatically maximum damage; you add the result of the roll.

Some powers allow you to force your target to move in specific ways. Depending on the power, you can pull, push, or slide your target (see “Pull, Push, and Slide,” page 285).

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DURATIONS

Many powers take effect and then end; their effects are instantaneous, perhaps as brief as a single swing of your sword. Some powers last beyond your turn, however. Unless otherwise noted, a power is instantaneous and has no lasting effect. The two types of durations are conditional and sustained.

DURATIONS

✦ Conditional Durations: These effects last until a specified event occurs. Until the Start of Your Next Turn: The effect ends when your next turn starts. Until the End of Your Next Turn: The effect ends when your next turn ends. Until the End of the Encounter: The effect ends when you take a rest (short or extended) or after 5 minutes. Save Ends: The effect ends when the target makes a successful saving throw against it.

✦ Sustained Durations: An effect that has a “sustain standard,” a “sustain move,” or a “sustain minor” duration lasts as long as you sustain it. Starting on the turn after you create an effect, you sustain the effect by taking the indicated action: a standard action, a move action, or a minor action. (You can sustain an effect once per turn.) Some effects do something, such as attack, when you sustain them. A power’s description indicates what happens when you sustain it or let it lapse. At the end of your turn, if you haven’t spent the required action to sustain the effect, the effect ends.

✦ Overlapping Durations: If a target is affected by multiple powers that have the same effect but end at different times, the effect with the most time remaining applies.

Unless a description says otherwise, you can sustain a power with a sustained duration for as long as 5 minutes. However, you can’t rest while sustaining a power, so you can’t regain the use of your encounter powers or second wind until you stop sustaining a power. Rituals (see Chapter 10) can create effects that last for hours, days, or years.

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SAVING THROWS

When you’re under a persistent effect or condition that can be ended by a save (“save ends”), you have a chance to escape the effect each round at the end of your turn. You do that by making a saving throw, which is a d20 roll unmodified by your level or ability modifiers. A successful saving throw is called a save.

SAVING THROWS

✦ End of Turn: At the end of your turn, you make a saving throw against each effect on you that a save can end. Roll a d20, with one of the following results: Lower than 10: Failure. The effect continues. 10 or higher: Success. The effect ends.

✦ Choose Order: Whenever you make a saving throw, you choose which effect to roll against first, which effect to roll against second, and so on.

✦ Modifiers: A saving throw normally doesn’t include modifiers; it’s just a d20 roll. Some powers, feats, or racial traits might modify a saving throw.

A saving throw gives you slightly better than even odds to shake off an effect. Most of the time, you can’t improve the odds, and your chance of success doesn’t have anything to do with an effect’s severity. What makes a giant snake’s poison worse than a normal snake’s is not how hard it is to shake off the poison’s effects, but how easily it affects you in the first place (its attack bonus) and what it does to you while it remains in your system (its ongoing damage or other effect). Each round, at the end of your turn, you roll a saving throw against each effect on you. Sometimes an effect is a single condition or one type of ongoing damage (page 278). Another kind of effect is like an imp’s hellish poison, which includes both ongoing poison damage and a –2 penalty to Will defense. You don’t make separate saving throws against the ongoing poison damage and the Will defense penalty; you make a single saving throw each round against the hellish poison itself. Some powers create effects that require multiple saving throws to fully escape. These powers include after effects that apply after you save against the initial effect. For example, a power might knock you unconscious until you save but have an aftereffect that slows you. Once you save against the unconscious condition, you need to save against the slowed condition before you’ve fully escaped the power’s effects. An aftereffect doesn’t begin until after you’ve rolled all your saving throws at the end of your turn. This means you can’t make a saving throw against an aftereffect at the end of the same turn when you saved against the initial effect.