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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7442862" data-attributes="member: 1465">Mmm... difficult!I need to think about what does the ability means in narrative terms. It works with weapons that have 10ft reach or with the quarterstaff. With those weapons you can strike anyone also at 5ft. The feat's ability however grants an OA only when an enemy enters your reach, not if it moves within your reach (or &quot;threatened area&quot;, to use an older edition term). So I'd say that the feat's ability has something to do with using the tip of such weapons, something that occurs exactly at that distance, and nothing to do with the fact that the enemy moves from a non-targettable position to a targettable position (for example, you don't get an OA if someone teleports directly 5ft from you).So my conclusion is that in a situation where e.g. there is a large column in front of you (5ft away) and an enemy pops out of the cover provided by the column (e.g. moving sideways) but doing so means it moves from 10ft away to again 10ft away from you, then you don't get an OA.Edit: from a RAW perspective, perhaps this ruling could be justified by saying that reach isn't blocked by cover, so if a target is both within reach and behind cover, it still counts as 'within reach' (ditto) even tho total cover makes it non-targettable</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7442862, member: 1465"] Mmm... difficult! I need to think about what does the ability means in narrative terms. It works with weapons that have 10ft reach or with the quarterstaff. With those weapons you can strike anyone also at 5ft. The feat's ability however grants an OA only when an enemy [I]enters[/I] your reach, not if it moves [I]within[/I] your reach (or "threatened area", to use an older edition term). So I'd say that the feat's ability has something to do with using the [B]tip[/B] of such weapons, something that occurs exactly at that distance, and nothing to do with the fact that the enemy moves from a non-targettable position to a targettable position (for example, you don't get an OA if someone teleports directly 5ft from you). So my conclusion is that in a situation where e.g. there is a large column in front of you (5ft away) and an enemy pops out of the cover provided by the column (e.g. moving sideways) but doing so means it moves from 10ft away to again 10ft away from you, then you don't get an OA. Edit: from a RAW perspective, perhaps this ruling could be justified by saying that reach isn't blocked by cover, so if a target is both within reach and behind cover, it still counts as 'within reach' (ditto) even tho total cover makes it non-targettable [/QUOTE]

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