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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6534199" data-attributes="member: 13009">From my understanding of the feat polearm master, the AoO happens when "they enter your reach", according to Sage Advice that happens at 10'.  The warcaster feat allows you to replace that AoO with a spell, so that would also happen at 10'.Now although we have sage advice answers to some of these issues there is ambiguity because the rules as written don't mash with the sage answers being rules as intended.  For example there is confusion about the whole reach thing, because reach says "Reach. This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it.", its the when you attack with part that is of concern, because are you attacking with it when it isn't your turn?  some people don't/didn't think so and that would mean for things like polearm master the attack wouldn't trigger until they come within 5' of you.  But then Mike stated on Sage Advice what I linked earlier that in fact the attack should happen at 10'.The idea of letting him only get in one eldritch blast during an AoO with this combo seems to me to be a fine compromise. I don't know if I would rule that way but if it became an issue I think that would be my first recourse instead of disallowing the combination to work at all.  But to each their own.Sometimes I miss the clearly spelled out RAW of 4e, and then I remember the fact my groups are having more fun in 5e and all is well again, vague rules or no, fun is fun.</blockquote>

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