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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8868451" data-attributes="member: 58197">But they also can't have actually left your reach yet, or you wouldn't be able to attack them. And you might reduce the target to 0 hit points or have the Sentinel feat, in which case it would never leave your reach at all.And trying to &quot;force through&quot; the movement after the OA opens a can of worms. What if you used War Caster to cast vortex warp, teleporting the creature somewhere else? Does it have to move from its new location, and if so, which way? What if you put earthbind on it when it was trying to use flying movement, does it now have to walk? It's a lot simpler all around to let the target of an OA reconsider its decision to move after being attacked.(Not that any of this matters for booming blade, since that effect only fires when the target moves more than 5 feet from where you hit it. Even if it does have to &quot;finish&quot; the provoking movement, it can get 1 inch beyond your reach and stop.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8868451, member: 58197"] But they also can't have actually left your reach yet, or you wouldn't be able to attack them. And you might reduce the target to 0 hit points or have the Sentinel feat, in which case it would never leave your reach at all. And trying to "force through" the movement after the OA opens a can of worms. What if you used War Caster to cast [I]vortex warp[/I], teleporting the creature somewhere else? Does it have to move from its new location, and if so, which way? What if you put [I]earthbind[/I] on it when it was trying to use flying movement, does it now have to walk? It's a lot simpler all around to let the target of an OA reconsider its decision to move after being attacked. (Not that any of this matters for [I]booming blade[/I], since that effect only fires when the target moves more than 5 feet from where you hit it. Even if it does have to "finish" the provoking movement, it can get 1 inch beyond your reach and stop.) [/QUOTE]

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