Just a quick clarification if someone uses running shot and move their character half their movement and are placed adjacent to a friendly character with enhancement will the character get the benefit of enhancement or will that count as doing something else during an action ?

Enhancement always occurs in the middle of an action; that's just the way it works. You give the character attacking a ranged combat action, power action, whatever, and then (after that action has been assigned) it makes its ranged combat attack and that is when Enhancement would kick in.

Enhancement
When an adjacent friendly character makes a ranged combat attack, this character modifies the adjacent friendly character’s damage value by +1 once for the attack.



In other words, as long as your Enhancement character is adjacent to the attacking character at the time of the attack, Enhancement will work just fine.

what about if you are carrying a person with enhancement...can you running shot, drop them down then enhance before the shot is taken?

You certainly can. Just can't do it with a HSS attack, nor can you use the SHIELD TA, (The Power Action part) which is similar to Enhancement, after carrying (SHIELD TA requires a non-free action).

And the reason for that is that Running Shot allows movement followed by a ranged combat action as a free action. And you always place carried characters down when the movement ends. So you move, movement ends, place the character down, and then do the ranged combat action. This means the carried charcater will always be adjacent to the attacker during a Running Shot.

The reason you cannot with HSS is that the attack occurs during the movement. Since the movement is still ongoing when the attack is made, the carried character is still carried during the attack. Since it is still carried, it is not adjacent to the attacker so Enhancement cannot be used.