LostWormOnItsWayHome
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Hello,
I'm not sure if there's a thread dedicated to this already. I couldn't find anything online addressing the issue.
There's this weird bug in 4e.
"Whenever you affect a creature with a power, that creatures knows exactly what you've done to it and what conditions you've imposed." (PHB Page 57, last paragraph)
However, there are several powers which have effects resulting in any attack attempt of the affected party to be effectively cancelled and to instead harm itself or an ally. This mostly occurs in the form of allowing the power user to change the target of the creature when the creature attacks. If the creature is aware of this effect, it is then aware it has no benefit to attacking, and that attacking will harm it. The power effectively becomes "This creature will not attack." which is not as fun or powerful.
So, my questions are:
1) Am I misunderstanding the rule from the PHB?
2) Has that rule been modified, clarified, or removed in errata?
3) How do other people handle this rule in conjunction with these powers?
Thank you
I'm not sure if there's a thread dedicated to this already. I couldn't find anything online addressing the issue.
There's this weird bug in 4e.
"Whenever you affect a creature with a power, that creatures knows exactly what you've done to it and what conditions you've imposed." (PHB Page 57, last paragraph)
However, there are several powers which have effects resulting in any attack attempt of the affected party to be effectively cancelled and to instead harm itself or an ally. This mostly occurs in the form of allowing the power user to change the target of the creature when the creature attacks. If the creature is aware of this effect, it is then aware it has no benefit to attacking, and that attacking will harm it. The power effectively becomes "This creature will not attack." which is not as fun or powerful.
So, my questions are:
1) Am I misunderstanding the rule from the PHB?
2) Has that rule been modified, clarified, or removed in errata?
3) How do other people handle this rule in conjunction with these powers?
Thank you