Fighter / Combat Challenge questions

[Lord Zardoz]

Just a few questions about something that came up recently in my last game.

1) Combat Challenge grants an immediate interrupt against someone who tries to shift away from you. Does that interrupt attack count as an Opportunity Attack for purposes of Combat Superiority?

2) Assuming the previous is true, how does that interact with a Goblin Blackblade that has the following abilities:

Goblin Tactics: (immediate reaction, when missed by a melee attack; at-will)
The goblin shifts 1 square.

Sneaky: When shifting, a goblin blackblade can move into a space occupied by an ally of its level or lower. The ally shifts into the blackblade’s previous space as a free action.

The game I ran on the weekend assumed that item 1 was true. During combat, a Blackblade had been marked by the Fighter. The Blackblade tried to use the Sneaky ability to shift and exhchange positions with the Fighter. This triggered an opportunity attack, which mised. Doe the Blackblade then get to shift twice? Once as a move action and again from Goblin Tactics?

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[Mouseferatu]

It's not an Opportunity Attack. There are very good reasons for this. But if it were, it would say so; opportunity attacks and immediate interrupts have some similarities, but they're mechanically distinct. If it was an OA, it would say it was an OA.

 

[Lord Zardoz]

After reading the rules, that is what I thought. I let it go in play at the time.

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[FireLance]

Away from my books right now, so I would appreciate if you could clarify a couple of points.

1. The OP stated that the Sneaky ability allows the Goblin Blackblade to exchange places with an ally. How could it use the ability to change places with the Fighter that marked it then?

2. I think I recall reading somewhere that you can't take immediate actions on your own turn. If so, if the Goblin Blackblade provoked an OA which missed it on its turn, it can't use Goblin Tactics.

 

[eamon]

As Mouseferatu says, it's not an opportunity attack. As Firelance says, you can't take immediate actions or opportunity attacks during your own turn (so no shifty against OA's or combat challenges you provoked). Finally, even if you ready an action to shift away (so that you're acting on someone elses turn...) you still can't use shifty, since taking the readied action is also an immediate action and you can take only one a turn.