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<blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 4379619" data-attributes="member: 51942"><p>To get ontopic:</p><p>My vote's for the dragonborn being allowed to mark with his breath weapon. Do you allow a ranged basic attack to mark (i.e. a fighter throwing a javelin)? Do you allow a typical non-basic fighter power to mark (say, Covering attack)? Do you allow area effects like Sweeping Blow (which attacks all adjacent foes, fighter encounter level 3 power)?</p><p></p><p>If you allow ranged attacks, and a fighter's area attacks, where do you draw the line? Marking in this point of view represents nothing more than a mild "challenge" - nothing more. Frankly, Kzach's certainly right that it's a real oversight that the PHB just <em>doesn't</em> actually come out and say what marking is supposed to represent or how it's supposed to work. It's not even in the index, and has no section in the combat chapter (just a marked condition which is hardly illuminating).</p><p></p><p>By the way, the difficult to find <a href="http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1396" target="_blank">FAQ</a> doesn't address the breath weapon, but does point out that a creature that's not an actual target of an attack (such as the victim of the secondary damage of a cleave attack) is not marked.</p><p></p><p>Offtopic:</p><p>[sblock]</p><p></p><p>Man, what a nasty house rule!<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eamon, post: 4379619, member: 51942"] To get ontopic: My vote's for the dragonborn being allowed to mark with his breath weapon. Do you allow a ranged basic attack to mark (i.e. a fighter throwing a javelin)? Do you allow a typical non-basic fighter power to mark (say, Covering attack)? Do you allow area effects like Sweeping Blow (which attacks all adjacent foes, fighter encounter level 3 power)? If you allow ranged attacks, and a fighter's area attacks, where do you draw the line? Marking in this point of view represents nothing more than a mild "challenge" - nothing more. Frankly, Kzach's certainly right that it's a real oversight that the PHB just [I]doesn't[/I] actually come out and say what marking is supposed to represent or how it's supposed to work. It's not even in the index, and has no section in the combat chapter (just a marked condition which is hardly illuminating). By the way, the difficult to find [URL="http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1396"]FAQ[/URL] doesn't address the breath weapon, but does point out that a creature that's not an actual target of an attack (such as the victim of the secondary damage of a cleave attack) is not marked. Offtopic: [sblock] Man, what a nasty house rule!:angel:[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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