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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8396325" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I don't really buy that.&nbsp; If that was the intent they would have worded it like the Sentinel feat and said &quot;you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack&quot;The wording on Sentinel is specifically so that the reaction attack is&nbsp; not considered an OA.I also think they almost certainly had EKs with PAM and warcaster during the D&amp;D Next playtesting, so I am sure this would have come up in play.&nbsp; Now I do not believe they envisioned a Sorcerer who is not even proficient in any polearms doing it.I think the logic here is you have your polearm out, the enemy has to navigate around that and it gives you an opportunity or opening, it makes sense that if you had warcaster a spell would be doable there.The arguement that the polearm is the specific weapon the OA is intended to enable falls flat in my mind because the same could be said for any OA - the designers intended for you to use your sword, your dagger, your mace or whatever was in your hand on a normal OA too and warcaster clearly overrides that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8396325, member: 7030563"] I don't really buy that. If that was the intent they would have worded it like the Sentinel feat and said "you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack" The wording on Sentinel is specifically so that the reaction attack is not considered an OA. I also think they almost certainly had EKs with PAM and warcaster during the D&D Next playtesting, so I am sure this would have come up in play. Now I do not believe they envisioned a Sorcerer who is not even proficient in any polearms doing it. I think the logic here is you have your polearm out, the enemy has to navigate around that and it gives you an opportunity or opening, it makes sense that if you had warcaster a spell would be doable there. The arguement that the polearm is the specific weapon the OA is intended to enable falls flat in my mind because the same could be said for any OA - the designers intended for you to use your sword, your dagger, your mace or whatever was in your hand on a normal OA too and warcaster clearly overrides that. [/QUOTE]

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