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Awesome! Thanks y'all, those explanations cleared it up for me. I'm going to show this to our DM for clarity if it comes up in the future. My main concern is I didn't think it should have stopped the Cleave, but imposing the -4 for being pone definitely makes sense. I don't know if the NPCs had delayed or readied actions, or what the trigger would've been for them; we just rolled with it at the time since it was just an inconvenience for the Barb.

We're at Lvl 3, playing Rise of the Runelords for extra context. We're in the Ripnugget encounter currently.

PC is a Barbarian, and it was their turn in Initiative. The enemies were hidden in the rafters above, presumably with held actions for when one of us moved to a square beneath them as they dropped down when the Barb moved in to attack the 2 warchanters. She got her standard attack, but was tripped before she was allowed to complete her Cleave attack.

A PC has attacked one foe and 2 more drop down with surprise, the PC used Cleave and rolled the attack. One of the surprises used a whip to trip, DM says that the trip interrupts the Cleave attack, negating it completely but I thought it would take effect after the Cleave attack resolved?