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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6534123" data-attributes="member: 42582">Not at all!I am probably a bit of an optimiser by your standards, but I'm not as hardcore as some of my players. But I also have players in my group who aren't so much into optimising, or who deliberately look for quirky options rather than optimised ones.I can't tell you if the combo is broken or not. (Does it let him use cantrips as OAs? That seems strong, because cantrips power-up with level whereas OAs don't. But even if it's strong, I can't judge if it's broken.)But if others who reply tell you it's not broken, then my advice would be to roll with it. One of the optimisers in my 4e group has a polearm fighter who makes enemies suck an OA to approach him and stops them in their tracks if the OA hits; and can then fall back on his own turn and still hit them because he has a feature that gives him improved reach. It means that mooks can't close with him unless he lets them. My workaround is to use enough opponents with mobility (from flight, terrain etc) to be able to close on the other PCs without having to go past him; and if that doesn't work for whatever reason (eg the PCs create a bottleneck) then he gets to do his thing.The main thing I would watch out for is that his optimisation doesn't crowd out or overshadow other players. This is most in danger of happening if there is another PC whose schtick is being effective in melee.</blockquote>