Combat Superiority Question

[Atreides]

Hey Everyone,

I have a question on the timing of Opportunity Attacks as relates to movement and the Fighter's Combat Superiority Trait.

An enemy adjacent to the Fighter attempts to move six squares. He grants and Opportunity Attack due to his movement, and the Fighter hits him. The enemies movement is now ended due to Combat Superiority.

Is the enemy still adjacent to the Fighter, or is he now 1 Square away?

Does the OA occur as soon as he attempts to move, or only after he has successfully moved one square?

Thanks!

 

[Snotboy]

The Opportunity Attack is an Immediate Interrupt, and happens before the action that triggers it. The enemy attempts to leave the square, triggering the OA. It hits, ending the movement before it could be completed, and thus the enemy is still in the square it was attempting to leave.

 

[Mort_Q]

Just to add, if the triggering combatant still has a standard action left, or in rare cases an action point, they can still use that action to move.

 

[boar]

The Opportunity Attack is an Immediate Interrupt, and happens before the action that triggers it.

For the record, opportunity attacks are Opportunity Actions, not Immediate Actions. This means that you can do one opportunity attack per turn. If it were an immediate interrupt, you could only do one per round.

 

[Mort_Q]

True enough.

I need to separate the interrupt keyword from the action types in my head.

 

[vagabundo]

For the record, opportunity attacks are Opportunity Actions, not Immediate Actions. This means that you can do one opportunity attack per enemies turn. If it were an immediate interrupt, you could only do one per round.

I believe that it is per enemies turn. So one smack-down per enemy, if he really wants to get away he can.

 

[Atreides]

Thank you very much - a follow up question then, if I may.

If you can only take 1 opportunity action per turn, what happens when 3 enemies all adjacent to you who have the same initiative (because all orcs have initiative of 14 for this example), do you only get to swing at one orc then?

 

[boar]

Vagabundo, your clarification is incorrect. "Per enemies turn" is simply a subset of "per turn." Note:

per turn = once during each combatant's turn
per enemies turn = once during each enemy's turn

You can make an opportunity attack during your allies' turns. If a monster provokes an OA during its turn, then uses an immediate action during an ally's turn to move (not shift) and provokes again, you will get two OA's on that enemy that round.

Atreides, you'll get an OA on each enemy. They have the same initiative, but each of them still takes a turn. The DM may do something like "They all move away" and move them all at once, but this is a shortcut, not an actual melding of three turns into one.