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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 3909040" data-attributes="member: 55638">"Attack of Opportunity."  It's a fairly straightforward name, and while the rules surrounding them can sometimes get muddy, the concept makes enough sense.  When you try to drink a potion in the middle of a fencing match, you open yourself up to your opponent -- fair enough.  And so, for the last 7 years or so, gamers have been dealing with quite a few of them, sometimes dominating the battlefield with them, sometimes <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=792" target="_blank">not quite grasping the rules.</a>  But certainly we've all seen enough to have a few opinions about the things.Now, whether you make them stronger, weaker, more common or more frequent, I think the word itself is unnecessarily clunky.  8 syllables and no usable acronym in sight for something that will get mentioned at least once or twice in every single combat round?  I think we can do better than that.  So far we've read mentions of Opportunity Attacks in blog updates.  While it shortens the phrase a (very little) bit, it also doesn't really sit well on its own.  Two nouns in a row?  Methinks you want Opportunistic Attacks or Opportune Attacks... and neither of those rolls off the tongue, either.So with that in mind, does anyone have a better idea of what to call the things?  I think we can do something more elegant than Attack of Opportunity, more evocative than Free Attack, and more appropriate than Potshot... but crap if I know what it is.</blockquote>

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