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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8868790" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>If that's what you feel the fairest way to handle a situation like this is, that'd be fine with me, were I playing at your table. But in my mind, the narrative thread is a little important- we have a scenario where X needs to occur before Y can occur- you need to provoke an opportunity attack before one can be made.</p><p></p><p>5e probably doesn't have the same strong language previous editions had regarding the ability of opportunity attacks to invalidate their trigger (I'm too lazy to check). But even lacking that, the problem I have here is that our hypothetical character was apparently OK with being hit by an opportunity attack when they decided to leave an enemy's reach.</p><p></p><p>But the instant someone says "attack happens and <em>also</em>", the player can say "no wait, I don't do that!"</p><p></p><p>I'm not usually an "action stated/action taken" kind of guy, but it occurs to me that nobody would be provoking opportunity attacks and suddenly freezing under normal circumstances. It's literally an instance of "oh no, I might take more damage! I don't want to move!".</p><p></p><p>Now upthread, someone posited the situation of "well, what if you were about to step into a space and it was lava, isn't it reasonable to stop moving?", and that would be fair, if the text for opportunity attacks didn't already point out that they aren't triggered until after you move. So to my mind, it's no different than if you provoked an attack, and a guy with Warcaster teleported you into a lava (or a Battlemaster with Pushing Attack punted you into one).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8868790, member: 6877472"] If that's what you feel the fairest way to handle a situation like this is, that'd be fine with me, were I playing at your table. But in my mind, the narrative thread is a little important- we have a scenario where X needs to occur before Y can occur- you need to provoke an opportunity attack before one can be made. 5e probably doesn't have the same strong language previous editions had regarding the ability of opportunity attacks to invalidate their trigger (I'm too lazy to check). But even lacking that, the problem I have here is that our hypothetical character was apparently OK with being hit by an opportunity attack when they decided to leave an enemy's reach. But the instant someone says "attack happens and [I]also[/I]", the player can say "no wait, I don't do that!" I'm not usually an "action stated/action taken" kind of guy, but it occurs to me that nobody would be provoking opportunity attacks and suddenly freezing under normal circumstances. It's literally an instance of "oh no, I might take more damage! I don't want to move!". Now upthread, someone posited the situation of "well, what if you were about to step into a space and it was lava, isn't it reasonable to stop moving?", and that would be fair, if the text for opportunity attacks didn't already point out that they aren't triggered until after you move. So to my mind, it's no different than if you provoked an attack, and a guy with Warcaster teleported you into a lava (or a Battlemaster with Pushing Attack punted you into one). [/QUOTE]
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