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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4994949" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, I don't have any major issues with how you handle it, but none of this is actually supported by the rules. Charge movement is movement, just like any other movement. Exactly what is or is not required is never made clear. Or more precisely no rule says you DO have to move in a manor consistent with the charge requirements or that you DO have execute the attack portion of the charge, or that you DO have to pick a target. Nothing for instance says that if your "target" say shifts a square (maybe as a readied action or using something like Kobold's shifty power) that you can't simply continue your charge until it fulfills the charge requirements WRT to the new "target" location, or simply decide that you will execute the charge attack against someone else as long as your charge movement met the requirements WRT to that creature. Mainly nothing in charge suggests that there really is a specific fixed target for your charge. Contrary to what you say Actions don't have targets. For example there is no rules support for saying that you have to have LoE to something you charge, which would be a requirement for any kind of attack. ALL attacks are powers, not actions and nowhere do the rules say that the requirements for targeting, which all apply specifically to powers, apply to charges. I'm not saying they shouldn't apply but by RAW they don't. In any case all this means it is impossible to definitively answer all of the OP's questions. RAW simply doesn't answer these sorts of questions. Charging is an infamous 4e rules black hole. Like I said before, the WotC Rules Q&A board is literally FILLED with 1000's of posts trying to answer the same questions (or related ones like "Can I charge around a corner").</blockquote>

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