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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kclark" data-source="post: 4374615" data-attributes="member: 60560">I understand the logic of your assessment and agree with it, except for one part.Under your ruling you cannot ever have B2 occur successfully. If it is impossible to fulfill the condition B2 why is the option written out? Thus I must read the power with the assumption that it is possible to fulfill condition B2.There are two ways of fulfilling the condition B2.1) You have no one marked. You use DC to mark an opponent. You have now fulfilled B2's requirement to challenge a different target. Surely Creature A is a different target than nothing. The target remains marked for the round without needing to engage. See #2 for what happens next round.2) You start a turn with Creature A marked. You can fulfill B2 by using DC on Creature B. You have now fulfilled the requirement to challenge a different target as Creature B is a different target than Creature A. The DC is sustained for the round without needing to engage.This interpretation still nullifies the Coward Paladin tactic of mark and run.The difference between the two interpretations is it does add the ability to do a round of distance tanking. You can even switch around your tanking target while focusing on others. This makes a paladin pretty distinct from the fighter tanking. The fighter is sticky he wants things right next to him all the time, the paladin flows around fighting where help is needed. He is a much more mobile defender.I think this adds a needed boost to the paladin's marking ability.</blockquote>

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