King's Castle Effect

[Prestidigitalis]

Sorry, my eyes must have skipped right over the "grabbed" bit. Mea culpa. As is so often the case, my answer was completely wrong and utterly useless. Peppermints, anyone?

 

[Whimsical]

Huh. Learn something new every day. I'm pretty well versed in the PHB but I can't honestly say I remember that passage at all.

Thanks for the info!!

Yeah. There's no good place for this rule, unfortunately. So a lot of people miss this detail.

So, this rule detail answers some of the questions brought up in this thread.

Grab: Since shift doesn't end a grab, it doesn't get you out of a grab. But since slide does end a grab, it can get your ally out of a grab.

Opportunity Attack: Your shift or your target's slide doesn't trigger an opportunity attack. But it may activate other actions that are triggered by a shift or a slide. Such as the fighter's Combat Challenge.

Difficult Terrain: since you're shifting until you reach your destination square (instead of X squares), difficult terrain doesn't affect you in this case. Sliding isn't hindered by difficult terrain, of course.

 

[Maleketh]

Wow. @_@ I also consider myself pretty familiar with the rules, and that was totally under my radar. Thanks, Whimsical.

 

[DracoSuave]

The Effect line of King's Castle (rogue encounter attack 1) reads "switch places with a willing adjacent ally." Is this switch considered movement, a shift, forced movement, or none of the above? Most importanbtly, does it work if the rogue and/or his ally are grabbed?

Disregard what anyone before Whimsical says about 'movement not mentioned.'

Whimsical is right 100%.

 

[Prestidigitalis]

Disregard what anyone before Whimsical says about 'movement not mentioned.'

Oh, you're no fun. First I can't get a job as a political pundit because I'm occasionally right, and now I can't get any credit here just because I got something completely wrong?

Geez, you just can't win any more...

 

[DracoSuave]

Oh, you're no fun. First I can't get a job as a political pundit because I'm occasionally right, and now I can't get any credit here just because I got something completely wrong?

Geez, you just can't win any more...

See, and you would have gotten this forgotten and been on a carreer of rightitude... but now everyone's gonna remember yer name.

I tried to cover up!

 

[Prestidigitalis]

See, and you would have gotten this forgotten and been on a carreer of rightitude... but now everyone's gonna remember yer name.

I tried to cover up!

Ah, but Prestidigitalis is not my real name. I am Spartacus!

 

[Ebon Shar]

Whimsical has always been my rules hero!