Breathe Fire / Lightning Stare / etc. in 4e

[Peter V. Dell'Orto]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

It's
Concentrate: 1 of 2
Concentrate: 2 of 2
(End of turn: Roll for spell, if successful:) Attack!

So there's functionally no time between rolling to see if you cast the spell and the attack. If you're interrupted, you make a Will-3 check to see if you can keep the concentration up.

That's pretty wonky. When are you taking that Attack maneuver?

Turn 1: Concentrate.
Turn 2: Concentrate AND Attack.

That's two maneuvers, and the spells specifically state it takes an action to attack. You don't get two of them.

If you mean:

Turn 1: Concentrate.
Turn 2: Concentrate.
Turn 3: Attack.

Then you can get interrupted, because you roll the spell on Turn 2 not just before Turn 3 like in 3e. That would also put you in the odd position of having a cast but not yet used Regular spell. I'm trying to think of other spells that do that and I can't think of any offhand, at least not ones that have an external combat effect like these spells do.