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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5465872" data-attributes="member: 71571">This is because the trigger for OA involves adjacency, in other words, IS of melee 1 range.Nope.Of course not, because it has no parameters that a weapon plugs in to.It doesn't need keywords.  It never did.This is true.Except this is not.See, everything that changes how opportunity attack works is specifically naming opportunity attack, and therefore is a specific exception to the general rule.For example, Polearm Gamble specifically changes it so that an opportunity attack can be delivered to a non-adjacent creature and adds a different trigger that allows it.  By naming opportunity attacks, it changes how opportunity attack works.  It's still a contradiction of the opportunity attack power, and in the case of every rules contradiciton specific beats general.  Threatening Reach changes the range of opportunity attacks by allowing them against non-adjacent targets.  It does not matter what range the opportunity attack power has, as by contradicting that, specific beats general.Neither of those elements only mention a 'provoke range' or 'attack range.'  They say you can use opportunity attacks against those creatures.  That means that FOR ALL PURPOSES you can do so.  It does not specify that only subsets of the opportunity attack rules work, and I'm completely baffled as to how one could come to that conclusion.These things work because they say they do.  Specific beats general allows this to happen until all contradictions are involved.The only way it wouldn't work is when you have two equally specific rules clash.  This is not the case.</blockquote>

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