Fighter's Mark and Opportunity Attacks

[Syntallah]

If a Fighter has an enemy marked, and that enemy takes an Opportunity Attack on someone running by (i.e. that someone is leaving an adjacent square), does the Fighter get his Immediate Interrupt attack due to his Combat Challenge?

I as a DM ruled that the intent of the Combat Challenge is to cover the enemy's deliberate actions made during his turn, not necessarily his reactive actions, such as OAs.

My player did point out that the PHB says "any attack..."


Any thoughts on this from you'all?

 

[kouk]

It says any attack, and it is called an opportunity attack...

Unless the marked creature is taking the OA against the Fighter, it is an attack which does not include the fighter.

 

[cmrscorpio]

I play it under the interpretation that a marked enemy's OA provokes an attack. Marking just seems like it would be too weak if it didn't

 

[Larrin]

What if its an attack against itself due to the rogues 'bloody path' power? I like that idea, and it seems to work just fine!

 

[Kordeth]

What if its an attack against itself due to the rogues 'bloody path' power? I like that idea, and it seems to work just fine!

It's an attack, and it's not including the fighter. Even the intent of the attack isn't including the fighter, so yes, you get the attack.

The only time you wouldn't get the attack is in some weird case where you're a multiclass fighter/rogue and you yourself are using bloody path. In that case you could argue that the enemy was trying to attack you and thus shouldn't trigger the attack--but that debate is moot anyways, sine you can't take immediate actions on your own turn.