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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 4570832" data-attributes="member: 1656">There are three main relevant sections.p290 A/ Threatening Reach: Some creatures have an ability called threatening reach. This lets them make opportunity attacks against nonadjacent enemies. If an enemy leaves a square that's within the creature's reach, or if an enemy anywhere within the creature's reach makes a ranged attack or an area attack, the creature can make an opportunity attack against that enemy.So if you are two squares away and shift adjacent to the creature with threatening reach, you have left a square that's within the creature's reach; per A/, you will provoke.So is there anything that says otherwise?p292 B/ No Opportunity Attacks: If you shift out of a square adjacent to an enemy, you don't provoke an opportunity attack.Is this applicable to the given scenario?  No, it is not; you are not shifting out of a square adjacent to an enemy.  B/ provides no exception to the rule in A/ that your movement provokes from the creature with threatening reach.But how about:p290 C/ Moving Provokes: If an enemy leaves a square adjacent to you, you can make an opportunity attack against that enemy. However, you can't make one if the enemy shifts or teleports or is forced to move away by a pull, a push, or a slide.Well, this may or may not provide an exception to A/.  Read in isolation, "you can't make [an OA] if the enemy shifts" is an exception to A/; you are shifting, so the enemy with threatening reach can't make an OA.However, the sentence is not an isolated one; it is part of a paragraph that begins with "if an enemy leaves a square adjacent to you".  So it depends on whether this condition limits the entire paragraph or not.Is the sentence C1/ "However, you can't make [an OA] if the enemy shifts"?  Or is it C2/ "However, you can't make [an OA against the enemy who leaves a square adjacent to you] if the enemy shifts?Case C1/ provides an exception to A/, and no OA is provoked.  But C2/ provides no exception to A/, and the OA is still provoked, because under B/ and C2/, a shift only protects you from an OA if you are leaving an adjacent square, and in our scenario, we are leaving a non-adjacent square within the reach of an enemy with threatening reach.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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