Rules Question: Obedience - ended action

Obedience ends the current action, so there is no way you can further modify that action with an action modifier like Hay Ride or Freak Drive.

nisu_advanced wrote:

Hi all,

I've got a doubt with Obedience, is the ended action considered unsuccessfully or it's just cancelled?

The successful / unsuccessful state depends only on whether the action was blocked or not. In any case, Obedience doesn't cancel the action but ends it immediately: action modifiers or reactions cards can't be played because there's no current action.

Brum wrote:

Ankha wrote:

nisu_advanced wrote:

Hi all,

I've got a doubt with Obedience, is the ended action considered unsuccessfully or it's just cancelled?

The successful / unsuccessful state depends only on whether the action was blocked or not. In any case, Obedience doesn't cancel the action but ends it immediately: action modifiers or reactions cards can't be played because there's no current action.

Is a combat action that ends when "about to enter combat" a successful combat action?

Whatever the action is, if it was successful (eg. not blocked) then it is successful, and if it was not successful (eg. blocked) then it's unsuccessful.
In both case, the action is ended when Obedience is played, and the successful or not state is unlikely to trigger anything outside the action.

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LSJ wrote:

> LSJ <> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:06:08 +0200, "henrik isaksson"
> >>>Can't find a clear answer to these Q:
> >>>A rushes B. No block. B playes obedience. Can A play inf freakdrive?
Sup?
> >>>A rushes B. B block. B play obedience. Can A play sup freak drive?
> >Obedience ends the action now (rather than simply canceling the combat).


> >No action modifiers (like Freak) can be played after the action ends.
> I guess that when Obedience ends the action, it is not considered
> successful.
Obedience doesn't affect that. If the action was successful (case 1
above), then it was succesful.

If it was unsuccessful (case 2), then it was unsuccessful.

> But if B blocks, isn't there a timing window where superior
> Freak Drive can be played? Kind of like when a Strike: Combat Ends is
> played, there's a timing window to play Taste, for example.
No. Obedience ends the action. Unlike combat, in which many things
can be done as combat is ending to forestall that (or to squeeze
in other effects in that window), there is no "as the action is
ending" phase -- there's a "after resolution, but still during
the action" window that many cards, like Freak Drive, use. But
Obedience ends that action earlier than that window -- up near
the start of resolution.