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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5210259" data-attributes="member: 40176">In an early-Paragon-tier campaign we'd just started, I built a Warlord dedicated to hampering opponents and creating openings for the two party rogues. He had a feat that caused opponents he charged to grant Combat Advantage, could knock enemies prone with several attacks, and took dailies dedicated to blocking movement.About the best moment for him was when we were up against a black dragon in a high-ceilinged cave. In classic inexperienced-player style, most of the party lacked decent ranged powers - the fighter and one of the rogues hadn't even bought ranged weapons as backup - and my character was the only one with a reach weapon.After a couple of rounds of us getting hammered by breath weapons and reach attacks, my warlord managed to bring down the dragon with a readied attack that knocked it prone. The rest of the party swiftly surrounded it, and on my next turn I used an Action Point to burn through two of my dailies - Pin the Foe and Villain's Nightmare. I don't think I actually hit with either, but nevertheless the damage was done (metaphorically speaking), as both attacks' effects occurred even on a miss.Pin the Foe stops an enemy from shifting if at least two party members are adjacent to it, and Villain's Nightmare lets me cancel an opponent's Walk or Run action as an immediate action.The only way this dragon - who, it turned out, the DM had planned as a recurring foe - could now escape was by making a double move (one to be cancelled by my interrupt, another to actually move), which would provoke OAs from the entire party. In desperation, as we wore it down towards death, the DM tried exactly that tactic - only for the fighter to connect with his Opportunity Attack, stopping it in its tracks. Next round, we took it down.My warlord only actually hit once or twice in that entire combat - the dragon was one very tough customer - but without him, it would have been us trying to flee from that cavern, not the dragon.</blockquote>

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