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If an Order cleric targets a character at 0 HP with Healing Word and uses Voice of Authority, can the character make the reaction attack?

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If an Order Domain cleric targets a character at 0 HP with healing word and uses the Voice of Authority feature, can the targeted character make the reaction attack?

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If an Order Domain cleric targets a character at 0 HP with healing word and uses the Voice of Authority feature, can the targeted character make the reaction attack?

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If an Order Domain cleric targets a character at 0 HP with healing word and uses the Voice of Authority feature, can the targeted character make the reaction attack?

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The Order Domain cleric's Voice of Authority feature (GGtR, p. 26) says:

If you cast a spell with a spell slot of 1st level or higher and target an ally with the spell, that ally can use their reaction immediately after the spell to make one weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see.

If your ally, the intended target of healing word, is at 0 HP and making death saving throws, they're unconscious and presumably prone. Voice of Authority triggers after you cast healing word on them. When you cast healing word on them, they regain an amount of HP equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier, which causes them to no longer be unconscious.

Since they are no longer unconscious, they can take actions and reactions as normal, assuming they're not affected by another condition or effect that prevents them from doing so. Thus, the ally you healed could indeed use their reaction to make a weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see, as long as the creature you choose is within range of the ally you healed. As Miniman notes in a comment on Derek Stucki's answer, though, the attack would be made at disadvantage due to the prone condition.

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The Voice of Authority ability says that the target of the spell "can use their reaction immediately after the spell." There is no stack in D&D, so things are resolved in order, in this case the spell, which heals and therefore wakes the target, then the target making their attack.

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The Order Domain cleric's Voice of Authority feature (GGtR, p. 26) says:

If you cast a spell with a spell slot of 1st level or higher and target an ally with the spell, that ally can use their reaction immediately after the spell to make one weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see.

If your ally, the intended target of healing word, is at 0 HP and making death saving throws, they're unconscious and presumably prone. Voice of Authority triggers after you cast healing word on them. When you cast healing word on them, they regain an amount of HP equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier, which causes them to no longer be unconscious.

Since they are no longer unconscious, they can take actions and reactions as normal, assuming they're not affected by another condition or effect that prevents them from doing so. Thus, the ally you healed could indeed use their reaction to make a weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see, as long as the creature you choose is within range of the ally you healed. As Miniman notes in a comment on Derek Stucki's answer, though, the attack would be made at disadvantage due to the prone condition.

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The Order Domain cleric's Voice of Authority feature (GGtR, p. 26) says:

If you cast a spell with a spell slot of 1st level or higher and target an ally with the spell, that ally can use their reaction immediately after the spell to make one weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see.

If your ally, the intended target of healing word, is at 0 HP and making death saving throws, they're unconscious and presumably prone. Voice of Authority triggers after you cast healing word on them. When you cast healing word on them, they regain an amount of HP equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier, which causes them to no longer be unconscious.

Since they are no longer unconscious, they can take actions and reactions as normal, assuming they're not affected by another condition or effect that prevents them from doing so. Thus, the ally you healed could indeed use their reaction to make a weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see, as long as the creature you choose is within range of the ally you healed. As Miniman notes in a comment on Derek Stucki's answer, though, the attack would be made at disadvantage due to the prone condition.

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The Order Domain cleric's Voice of Authority feature (GGtR, p. 26) says:

If you cast a spell with a spell slot of 1st level or higher and target an ally with the spell, that ally can use their reaction immediately after the spell to make one weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see.

If your ally, the intended target of healing word, is at 0 HP and making death saving throws, they're unconscious and presumably prone. Voice of Authority triggers after you cast healing word on them. When you cast healing word on them, they regain an amount of HP equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier, which causes them to no longer be unconscious.

Since they are no longer unconscious, they can take actions and reactions as normal, assuming they're not affected by another condition or effect that prevents them from doing so. Thus, the ally you healed could indeed use their reaction to make a weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see, as long as the creature you choose is within range of the ally you healed. As Miniman notes in a comment on Derek Stucki's answer, though, the attack would be made at disadvantage due to the prone condition.

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The Voice of Authority ability says that the target of the spell "can use their reaction immediately after the spell." There is no stack in D&D, so things are resolved in order, in this case the spell, which heals and therefore wakes the target, then the target making their attack.

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The Voice of Authority ability says that the target of the spell "can use their reaction immediately after the spell." There is no stack in D&D, so things are resolved in order, in this case the spell, which heals and therefore wakes the target, then the target making their attack.

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The Voice of Authority ability says that the target of the spell "can use their reaction immediately after the spell." There is no stack in D&D, so things are resolved in order, in this case the spell, which heals and therefore wakes the target, then the target making their attack.

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