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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shikami" data-source="post: 5444442" data-attributes="member: 6669047">Very incorrect.  You need to understand the semantics here, and you are using defined terms incorrectly.  I am also, since I think I need to go beyond these defined terms, will use all the rules that will help with resolution of this and other powers.  If I note a page this is all awithin the Rules Compendium.  What 106 says is this.  A target is one of the three things.  A creature, enemy, or ally, UNLESS specifically written in the power.  If it is a creature it can be an enemy or ally.  It [the power] also does not have the distinct notation of "each creature" which means indiscriminately:  there is no distinction between friend or foe.  This is to define situations with close and area powers though.  As in "Target:  Each enemy in  blast."  If it said "Target:  Each creature in blast."  The warlock can slide and make his allies fight too, even if they do not want to (This is noted later).  It says against a creature.  Now, since a creature is a creature of any sort, whether enemy or ally.  We have to look at the defined terms of enemy or ally and how this will affect the target of this melee basic attack granted by the power (106).  The power says:  The target makes a melee basic attack as a free action against a creature of your choice.  Note, these free actions are to be treated as Other Triggered Effect (194-197). The target of the Hit effect is the origin square for the MBA which is range melee noted by the melee basic attack.  This is range melee 1 unless noted otherwise, not melee 0.  Even if the MBA can be melee 0 the target (creature, enemy or ally) is sharing the attacker's space, it is not a personal range (100-101, 239, and 268-269).  Any creature even if it is enemy or ally can be targeted by this range melee 1 MBA in the adjacent squares of the origin square .  If target of MBA is an ally, and the creature defined term is used for the target of the attack, the ally (which is considered enemy by the hero, the warlock would not want to attack what is considered its own ally for that is punitive) cannot disregard the power's affect.Just 106 prevented the target for targeting itself as a creature because it is not defined.  To note, it is also in the literature of the power's resolution-target/against/creature.  It is even in the Flavored Text.  However, I think you perhaps would rather argue this differently.  Like how some comprehend the warlord's power Commander's Strike.  Giving the ability of an unconscious ally an ability to attack.  This cannot happen since it is not a legitimate target as per rules.To target the target's self you have to have either a specific, or it will say personal but that is actually a distinction for range.  And in this is the Uber caveat.  The MBA is melee 1 to the adjacent squares of the origin square, not origin square-again cannot target unless specific is given.However, the ultimate rule:  it is your game.  But I am a purist.  So, therefore this power cannot cause the target of the Hit effect to target itself as a creature using what is given by the power, defined terms, and mechanics.</blockquote>

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