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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5463299" data-attributes="member: 82106">Look at the RC p246. Obviously what happened is some nimnuts somewhere was told &quot;reformat things as powers&quot;. Unfortunately someone went WAY too far with that. They formatted the triggering of an OA as a totally unneeded 'power'. It is an Opportunity Action, with Melee 1 range and the usual OA trigger condition. Its effect is that you get to make an MBA. You see the problem here. The &quot;Opportunity Attack&quot; power isn't using the reach weapon. Even if your theory was correct, which I am not sure it is, it is moot because Opportunity Attack doesn't have a weapon keyword at all! In fact it has no keywords. It really is absolutely not something that should be a power at all and can be safely ignored. But so stands RAW, officially it is IMPOSSIBLE to have an OA beyond 1 square unless some other game element actually specifically overrides p246. All the stuff that did allow it when OA was just an MBA no longer functions by RAW.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5463299, member: 82106"] Look at the RC p246. Obviously what happened is some nimnuts somewhere was told "reformat things as powers". Unfortunately someone went WAY too far with that. They formatted the triggering of an OA as a totally unneeded 'power'. It is an Opportunity Action, with Melee 1 range and the usual OA trigger condition. Its effect is that you get to make an MBA. You see the problem here. The "Opportunity Attack" power isn't using the reach weapon. Even if your theory was correct, which I am not sure it is, it is moot because Opportunity Attack doesn't have a weapon keyword at all! In fact it has no keywords. It really is absolutely not something that should be a power at all and can be safely ignored. But so stands RAW, officially it is IMPOSSIBLE to have an OA beyond 1 square unless some other game element actually specifically overrides p246. All the stuff that did allow it when OA was just an MBA no longer functions by RAW. [/QUOTE]

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