Can you use ranged attack on an adjacent target?

[jdeemac]

If so, do you provoke an attack of opportunity from them?

 

[Oompa]

If so, do you provoke an attack of opportunity from them?

Yes.. but when it say's close blast/burst not..

 

[WalterKovacs]

Not only can you make a ranged attack while adjacent to a target, you can do so with combat advantage if you have a flank.

 

[Irda Ranger]

Not only can you make a ranged attack while adjacent to a target, you can do so with combat advantage if you have a flank.

Huh. I hadn't realized that. "Must be able to attack", (Flanking, p. 285). I guess I had misread that as only someone who "threatens" with melee or close attacks as producing a flank, but I guess that's a personal holdover from 3E. Learn new things every day ...

 

[Eldorian]

Huh. I hadn't realized that. "Must be able to attack", (Flanking, p. 285). I guess I had misread that as only someone who "threatens" with melee or close attacks as producing a flank, but I guess that's a personal holdover from 3E. Learn new things every day ...

Ranger or Warlocks can walk up to a target marked by the defender, flank, shoot him, and get a +3 to hit with the attack. Prime shot works if you're adjacent too. It's actually a pretty good tactic.

 

[CapnZapp]

Can you use ranged attack on an adjacent target?
If so, do you provoke an attack of opportunity from them?

Yes and yes.

Other games simply prevent you from using bows in melee, but not D&D 4E.

 

[MarkB]

Huh. I hadn't realized that. "Must be able to attack", (Flanking, p. 285). I guess I had misread that as only someone who "threatens" with melee or close attacks as producing a flank, but I guess that's a personal holdover from 3E. Learn new things every day ...

What you have to bear in mind is that, unlike in 3.xe, even your unarmed strikes (which could be a kick or headbutt) may be used for opportunity attacks, so unless you're subject to a condition (such as Dazed or Stunned) that prevents you from making OAs, you always 'threaten', even when not wielding a melee weapon.

 

[0-hr]

Yes.. but when it say's close blast/burst not..

If the burst is an Area of Effect attack, doesn't it provoke regardless of whether it is close or not?

 

[Legildur]

If the burst is an Area of Effect attack, doesn't it provoke regardless of whether it is close or not?

I'm new to 4E, and have only played a handful of sessions with the 'lite rules' from KotS, so I could have this wrong. IIRC, the PHB lists 'area' attacks as a separate entry to 'close' attacks. And is 'close' further subdivided into blast/burst/wall?

If I have it right, then 'close blast' does not provoke an opportunity attack.

If it does provoke, then my Rogue 2 with the Blinding Barrage daily power (close blast 3) is in trouble when he goes to use it....

 

[tbk409]

A close attack is not an "area attack," even if it takes up an area, such as a blast.
Attacks are either area, close, melee, or ranged.
Area and ranged provoke, melee and close do not.