Confusion over Mage Heroic Feat

[Lord Gek]

Hey Gang,

I'm a bit confused about something with how the Mage's Heroic Feat plays out.

How one earns a Heroic die is clear enough as well as needing to commit to using a Heroic die during the Heroic Feat phase of the turn is also clear. Where I'm confused is why am I rolling his Heroic Feat die before the encounter? I understand that with the Rogue, for example, a pre-encounter roll is necessary to check for a potential injurous fumble, but there is no needed check with the Mage's Storage Heroic Feat, so what is that die roll for?

[Adam Inferno]

That's just order of operations. Every character decides how many heroic dice they want to roll from their feat before they roll the rest of their pool and use skills.

[Lord Gek]

Oh, okay, it isn't a check, it's just rolled before the main roll, got it.