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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4108850" data-attributes="member: 710">Just a quick note on movement in D&D:From the D&D Experience, we know this:To move on your own desire (barring any exceptional situations and powers), you need to spend a move action. This does even apply if you shift. Shifting is the type of voluntarily movement that allows you to avoid Opportunity Attacks and basically the 3E 5 ft step, except that it still costs a full move action. So, if a power disallows you to shift, it doesn't mean your movement is restricted. It just means that due the circumstances, you are under so much pressure that you can't move careful enough to avoid an Opportunity Attack. In a way, this power creates "difficult terrain" (shifting on difficult terrain is usually impossible in 4E, barring - as always - exceptional powers and abilities.)Sliding is generally movement outside of your turn, typically involuntarily or forced - and does not provoke attack of opportunity. Presumable because you are not actively concentrating on your movement which lets you "drop" your guard. I take the Warlords White Raven Onslaught ability to mean that the movement is voluntarily, but due to the cover of a successful attack from the allied attacker, it is "safe" (does not provoke Opportunity Attacks).My worry here is that I am not sure that the ally can choose not to move, which would make it involuntary and allies bossing each other around. Without having seen further contexts of "slide" powers, I am not sure.</blockquote>

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