Immediate action trip, does it stop the attack?

[Flint419]

Ok so I'm playig a "Flowing Monk" and they have the abillity to make a trip attack (or a repotion) aganst someone who attacks them as an immediate action.

My question is if the cmb is sucesseful can the attack go through? Or does it get interupted ?

[SlimGauge]

A creature can still attack when prone, there's just a minus.

[Flint419]

Well that begs the question, is his attack resolved before or after the trip?

[In My Humble Opinion]

Immidiate would interrupt, thus applying the penalty and possibly setting up AoO's when the foe tries to get up.

[BillyGoat]

My understanding is that immediate actions interrupt the action triggering them. I can't find the rules reference right this second, so take that with a grain of salt.

If I'm recalling it correctly, this would mean that they would attack, you'd trip before they could complete the attack, then the attack would be resolved, now with a penalty for attacking from prone.

[Flint419]

So then in the case of reposition (lol my spelling in the first post) if I move them out of reach the attack is avoided all together?

I think I like trip better, but I can see repositioning to be useful, and at later levels the Flowing Monk can do both as one action.

[Kazumetsa Raijin]

Dot - I would like to know about this as well Flint419!

[Mojorat]

The interrupt stops the flow of play. The attack that is interrupted is subject to any new conditions. This means for a deposition without reach the attack is invalid and for a trip it is subject to the new penalties.

[Kazumetsa Raijin]

Flint419 wrote:

So then in the case of reposition (lol my spelling in the first post) if I move them out of reach the attack is avoided all together?

I think I like trip better, but I can see repositioning to be useful, and at later levels the Flowing Monk can do both as one action.

Reading more into it, between Reposition and Redirection, you can indeed move them outside of your threatening area by 5 feet(at the most I think). So you could indeed stop a full attack from one creature with one successful redirection. That definitely beats Stunning Fist...

[blahpers]

I haven't located anything in the rules that states that an immediate action interrupts a triggering action--in fact, many immediate actions have no trigger. It does work like that for readied actions, but immediate.... However, everybody plays it that way because it's simpler, easier to remember, and generally makes more sense.

If someone has a rules quote, it'd be welcome here.