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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Big J Money" data-source="post: 4316612" data-attributes="member: 70533">This* is what makes all this confusing.  It uses the word interrupt, which has erroneously lead the OP to defer to the rules of immediate interrupt, which is a different class of action altogether.  This doesn't necessarily invalidate the OP's tactic, however!  Let's take a look to see if it's possible.Look at what I underlined**.  It says that the opp action takes place before the target finishes the action.  In this case, we are talking about movement, which is trickier than a standard action, because a move action consists of a linear string of many events.  To say that you interrupt an attack is easy -- you get to do whatever it is before the attack is over, which could prevent it entirely.  To say that you interrupt movement also means that you get to do whatever it is before the movement is over.  However, does it mean that you prevent the 1 specific square that triggered the move-based opp action?  My interpretation, according to the ruling of both opportunity attacks and the specific opp attack from the feat, is that the target has already moved into the square that triggered the opp attack.  If it had not, the opp attack would never have been able to take place in the first place!  This is a legal interpretation.  It provides the interruption to the move action as stated by the rules.I may be wrong, but this is the point in contention for the thread.  If I am wrong, these are the implications:If an opp attack really does happen technically before the specific square-move that triggered it, that means that ALL opp attacks function in that way, not just the feat we are talking about.  This means that if you get a successful, vanilla opp attack on an enemy, that enemy will be interrupted before he has left the square adjacent to you -- with Combat Superiority, they will be stuck where they are.  My understanding is that opp attacks do not work like this, so I am led to rule according to the legal version of the rules I stated above. (Until further notice)</blockquote>

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