Threatening Reach and OA's

[Istar]

How does threatening reach work.

If you shift you are okay, but you move within X squares of reach you get an OA on you.

How about when you "First" move in to attack, do you get an OA on you then ?

If you shift in that distance then you are fine.

But if this does trigger an OA, what if you charge in instead ?

 

[DracoSuave]

How does threatening reach work.

If you shift you are okay, but you move within X squares of reach you get an OA on you.

How about when you "First" move in to attack, do you get an OA on you then ?

If you shift in that distance then you are fine.

But if this does trigger an OA, what if you charge in instead ?

The intention of the move is irrelevant to OAs.

...pet peeve. 'OA' as an acronym makes it harder to talk about opportunity actions. Just sayin'... we need a new acronym.

What matters is this:

Did the person leave a square that is eligible for an opportunity attack?
Is the person doing something that makes them immune to either opportunity attacks or opportunity actions?

If the answer to the first is yes, and the second is no, then an opportunity attack may occur if the reactor hasn't taken one yet this turn.

So... Threatening Reach extends the 'adjacent' rule for opportunity attacks to within reach. That's pretty simple.

So:

"How about when you "First" move in to attack, do you get an OA on you then ?"

It depends on how you move. If you use a power that allows a shift or a teleport, no opportunity attack can occur. If you use a walk action or a run action or a crawl action, then certainly an opportunity attack may occur.

"But if this does trigger an OA, what if you charge in instead ?"

Ask the question 'Does this render me immune to opportunity attacks or actions?' Generally, charges do not render that immunity, however there -are- circumstances where a piece of equipment or a specific power might.

 

[Istar]

Seems a silly rule, if your moving directly to the monster to attack it, can understand if your trying to move past or trying to avoid or get away.

But least we know now.

Whats this bizo Draco about Justin Beaver and D&D, dont get it ?

p.s. Use Opportunity Actions for Opportunity Actions, and OA for Opportunity Attacks, how hard is that.

Or OAC and OAT

 

[the Jester]

That's what makes threatening reach threatening: it makes it hard to get close enough to attack a monster without getting whacked!

...pet peeve. 'OA' as an acronym makes it harder to talk about opportunity actions. Just sayin'... we need a new acronym.

I'd argue that opportunity attacks are referenced far more often than opportunity actions, so the acronym should stay as is. YMMV, obviously.

 

[Istar]

That's what makes threatening reach threatening: it makes it hard to get close enough to attack a monster without getting whacked!



I'd argue that opportunity attacks are referenced far more often than opportunity actions, so the acronym should stay as is. YMMV, obviously.

Whats threatening is your shift 1 compared to their reach 2, and trying to move around them.

But yep, makes sense.

 

[DracoSuave]

Whats this bizo Draco about Justin Beaver and D&D, dont get it ?

Lost a bet.

p.s. Use Opportunity Actions for Opportunity Actions, and OA for Opportunity Attacks, how hard is that.

Cause while OAttacks happen more often, OActions are made immune to more often these days.

In fact, there's very few things that create immunities to OAttacks that don't for OActions.