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<blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 5096071" data-attributes="member: 111">You asked, &quot;what would you have done? let him slide? hit him with the OA? ask him to specify what he is doing?&quot;I answered.&nbsp; To answer your next question above, &quot;As a DM is it my responsibility to tell them what weapon they are attacking with?,&quot; the answer is you already are doing so if you are going to take an OA based upon what weapon the he/she is holding.&nbsp; In this case, you really should give fair warning before talking the OA.&nbsp; It's all about getting along well in a group and making the game cooperative, not competitive.I have played in all kinds of games in my 35 years of playing (that's a long time! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) and the least fun was when I felt like the DM would be a jerk and make it feel like the DM and players were in competition.Remember, you asked!Certainly, from a strict rules perspective, you were correct, but 4e is really supposed to be cooperative between DM and players.&nbsp; Playing &quot;gotcha&quot; with players is not how 4e was designed, though it can be played that way if that's what the group thinks is fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Artoomis, post: 5096071, member: 111"] You asked, "what would you have done? let him slide? hit him with the OA? ask him to specify what he is doing?" I answered. To answer your next question above, "As a DM is it my responsibility to tell them what weapon they are attacking with?," the answer is you already are doing so if you are going to take an OA based upon what weapon the he/she is holding. In this case, you really should give fair warning before talking the OA. It's all about getting along well in a group and making the game cooperative, not competitive. I have played in all kinds of games in my 35 years of playing (that's a long time! :)) and the least fun was when I felt like the DM would be a jerk and make it feel like the DM and players were in competition. Remember, you asked! Certainly, from a strict rules perspective, you were correct, but 4e is really supposed to be cooperative between DM and players. Playing "gotcha" with players is not how 4e was designed, though it can be played that way if that's what the group thinks is fun. [/QUOTE]

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