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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5466425" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, by RAW it is like this: Polearm Gamble allows you to TRIGGER an OA, but the OA itself is a Melee 1 power with no weapon keyword. Thus it can only legitimately target someone that is adjacent to you, period. The reach of your weapon etc would be irrelevant. Since an OA is interrupt speed PG triggers the OA when the target is still 2 squares from you, and the OA power then fails its targeting check, no MBA ever happens. That's the RAW (backed up by a vast quantity of discussion on the Q&A board). Now, is anyone seriously going to play it like that? Of course not. In a practical sense the RAI is that PG or other similar sorts of things (Beast Defender in some situations comes to mind) work. The strict interpretation of the mechanics just doesn't work, so the new 'OA power' is borked. It should probably just have a weapon keyword and a range of Melee Weapon. I THINK that would work, though heaven knows there's probably a corner case where that gets wonky too...</blockquote>