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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 4769812" data-attributes="member: 19998">I just looked-up Come and Get It. It's an interesting power. The flavor text says call, the effect line says pull. Both of these can, technically, be accomplished in real life without magic. It is possible to call an enemy toward you, and it's possible to pull an enemy toward you.Consider: Olof the fighter standing on a battle field with no one adjacent to him has eight adjacent squares. Conceivably, this power can work on a maximum of 8 targets. From experience, I guesstimate that, in most games, Olof won't have 8 empty squares around him. Also, in most games, Olof won't have the maximum amount of enemies he could fit around him. Now, it's easy to for Olof to shout "Get over here!" and for the bad guys to come running to him. This fits the mundane "player gets temporary control over the narrative" position Mallus is espousing. This is, I think, a new idea in D&D. As Kask points out, players had 0 control over NPCs in previous editions. While in 4e this is a mundane explanation, in 2e it would indeed be magic. Having it be magic in 2e doesn't make it magic in 4e though because they are still two different game systems. As different from each other as AD&D 1e was from the White Box.The other explanation is that Olof runs around and literally pulls as many bad guys toward him as he can. In this scenario, Olof kind of performing a circular charge, combining a move and an attack where the bad guys get, literally, pulled in toward him just before he attacks them all. Why, then, doesn't Olof get a bunch of opportunity attacks? The gamest answer is that, in an exception base rules system like 4e D&D, this power is an exception to rule that moving through other creatures spaces provokes an opportunity action. An in game explanation is that so few people do (because of the energy exerted performing it) it's a surprise and the bad guys are caught off guard. This kind of explanation isn't that new to D&D because D&D, at least in 3.x, has allowed martial character to do some fairly extraordinary things in the past. Not this specifically, to be sure, but extraordinary to be sure.Personally, I like both explanations. I love it when people narrate their actions this way. With NPC and Monsters, I often don't narrate the same powers the same way. As the DM in a 4e game, I often have several bad guys with the same powers so it keeps me and the players interested if I mix-up the narration.</blockquote>

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