Astarra's hero ability reads " Once per round, you may spend 1 movement point to remove your figure from the map and place it in an empty space adjacent to 1 hero who is within 3 spaces of you."

Can she use this to avoid a melee attack? (Given that I am remembering correctly that "round" includes the Overlord's turn.) So if Astarra is declared as the target of a melee attack, then before rolling dice she could use her ability (if it hasn't been used yet that round and its condition is satisfied) to potentially move out of range. Correct or am I going crazy?

Also, does she need to have 1 movement point remaining to use her ability? I assume yes, because of the word "spend".

Thanks much!

Firstly, you can only have movement points during your own turn, all other movement between turns does not make use of movement points. Movements you don't use at the end of your turn are wasted: they don't remain in a pool of unused points.

Secondly, even if you could pay the movement point, during the overlord turn, the overlord has priority. That means that whenever a timing conflict occurs on resolution of a set of abilities, he can choose the order in which they resolve (just like a hero can during his own turn). That means if he moved up and declared an attack, and you declared you were using that ability, he could have the attack resolve first and then your ability went off after you got hit anyway.

Firstly, you can only have movement points during your own turn, all other movement between turns does not make use of movement points. Movements you don't use at the end of your turn are wasted: they don't remain in a pool of unused points.

Not to be picky, but that's not exactly correct. I think there are ways to grant movement points to figures when it is not the turn of the player controlling that figure- but the movement points must be spent immediately , or they go away- they don't get stored. However, you're right about the pool. At the end of your turn it goes to zero.

The point about the Golden Rule is dead on. Even if Astarra was granted a movement point at that exact moment, the OL could choose to resolve the attack first- and even if he chose not to, Astarra's movement would need to resolve completely before the attack starts (that is, before the target is declared) so the OL would be free to declare another target.