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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr_Sage" data-source="post: 4847218" data-attributes="member: 36185">Good evening fellows! We had a serious doubt when our Ranger was starting his Spitting Cobra Stance last game session. I would not like to discuss the usefullness of the power or how good it is, but the official rules. The DM and a friend decided that if the enemies acted togueder the Ranger could only shoot one of them. Say for example that 5 orcs charged the Ranger in the same initiative (becuse they rolled the same init number or becuse some delayed action and coordinated leadership). I personally thing that the power says otherwise, basically acting togueder does not mean acting on the same "combatant’s turn". The power states that: "Until the stance ends, you can make a ranged basicattack as an opportunity action against any enemy (...)" (MP 47) Here comes from the definition of Oportunity action (PHB 268): OPPORTUNITY ACTION✦ Once per Combatant’s Turn: You can take nomore than one opportunity action on each other combatant’s turn. You can’t take an opportunityaction on your own turn.      So I think that the Stance could work against many enemies, no matter if they are acting on the same initiative. And I also believe that doing so would open a weird preceddent where some NPCs or PCs could counteract some well defined defense.   The best example I could think right now: Imagine all the melee PCs delaying actions and surrounding a Red Dragon in the same initiative, so the dragon could not use his tail to hit/push them.   Here comes the description of the dragon power to help the lazy fellows like myself: (MM 82)  " Tail Strike (immediate reaction, when an enemy moves to aposition where it flanks the red dragon; at-will)The dragon attacks the enemy with its tail: reach 2; +12 vs. Reflex; 1d10 + 6 damage, and the target is pushed 1 square. "  Considerations? Official rulings or erratas?Thanks in advance!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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