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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 4504545" data-attributes="member: 1656">Consider Freezing Cloud (Wiz 1).&nbsp; It's an Area power, with an attack line... and an effect that any creature that enters the cloud or starts its turn there is subject to another attack (the cloud lasts until the end of your next turn).So the wizard casts Freezing Cloud encompassing five goblins, say; it's an area power, he provokes an OA from the adjacent hobgoblin.&nbsp; End of the wizard's turn.Next, it's a goblin's turn, and he's starting his turn in the area of the cloud, so he's subject to an attack.&nbsp; If we assume that on p268, 'ranged attack' means 'any time you make a ranged attack roll', and 'area attack' means 'any time you make an area attack roll', then this goblin who is subject to an area attack means the wizard makes an area attack roll, provoking an OA... and since it's a new combatant's turn (the goblin's), the hobgoblin can take an opportunity action, and hits the wizard.Now it's another goblin's turn; he takes an area attack from the cloud, and the hobgoblin takes an OA on the wizard.A third goblin?&nbsp; Another OA.All in all, the wizard takes six OAs from the hobgoblin before his next turn... each one of a different combatant's turn.&nbsp; And if the hobgoblin can convince more minions to enter the cloud, he can get more OAs.All of this assumes that we read 'makes an area attack' on p268 to mean 'makes an area attack roll'.&nbsp; If we instead read it as 'uses an area power', the hobgoblin only gets one OA, no matter how many goblins start their turns in the cloud.-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 4504545, member: 1656"] Consider Freezing Cloud (Wiz 1). It's an Area power, with an attack line... and an effect that any creature that enters the cloud or starts its turn there is subject to another attack (the cloud lasts until the end of your next turn). So the wizard casts Freezing Cloud encompassing five goblins, say; it's an area power, he provokes an OA from the adjacent hobgoblin. End of the wizard's turn. Next, it's a goblin's turn, and he's starting his turn in the area of the cloud, so he's subject to an attack. If we assume that on p268, 'ranged attack' means 'any time you make a ranged attack roll', and 'area attack' means 'any time you make an area attack roll', then this goblin who is subject to an area attack means the wizard makes an area attack roll, provoking an OA... and since it's a new combatant's turn (the goblin's), the hobgoblin can take an opportunity action, and hits the wizard. Now it's another goblin's turn; he takes an area attack from the cloud, and the hobgoblin takes an OA on the wizard. A third goblin? Another OA. All in all, the wizard takes six OAs from the hobgoblin before his next turn... each one of a different combatant's turn. And if the hobgoblin can convince more minions to [i]enter[/i] the cloud, he can get more OAs. All of this assumes that we read 'makes an area attack' on p268 to mean 'makes an area attack roll'. If we instead read it as 'uses an area power', the hobgoblin only gets one OA, no matter how many goblins start their turns in the cloud. -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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