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<blockquote data-quote="Starglim" data-source="post: 4604244" data-attributes="member: 17011">By the RAW, you're probably right, nothing that benefits or penalises opportunity attacks applies to Combat Challenge or vice versa.However, comparing the text for the Distracting Shield and Potent Challenge feats with their table entries on the next page, even the WotC design team didn't follow this consistently. It seems simpler to say that a Combat Challenge attack is an opportunity attack, except that it's granted specifically by that class feature (thus, certain feats only benefit those attacks) and is an immediate action. As you say, it's clear you only get to use Combat Challenge once per round, even if the fighter marks more than one target (rare, but sometimes possible). A fighter adjacent to a marked opponent who made a ranged attack against someone else could only make one reaction to that trigger. edit: Apart from anything else, otherwise he would get two actions simultaneously, which is physically impossible if his chosen actions were to attack with the same weapon. He could choose to make either a Combat Challenge attack or an opportunity attack if they were different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starglim, post: 4604244, member: 17011"] By the RAW, you're probably right, nothing that benefits or penalises opportunity attacks applies to Combat Challenge or vice versa. However, comparing the text for the Distracting Shield and Potent Challenge feats with their table entries on the next page, even the WotC design team didn't follow this consistently. It seems simpler to say that a Combat Challenge attack is an opportunity attack, except that it's granted specifically by that class feature (thus, certain feats only benefit those attacks) and is an immediate action. As you say, it's clear you only get to use Combat Challenge once per round, even if the fighter marks more than one target (rare, but sometimes possible). A fighter adjacent to a marked opponent who made a ranged attack against someone else could only make one reaction to that trigger. edit: Apart from anything else, otherwise he would get two actions simultaneously, which is physically impossible if his chosen actions were to attack with the same weapon. He could choose to make either a Combat Challenge attack or an opportunity attack if they were different. [/QUOTE]

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