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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1704660" data-attributes="member: 259">Actually, in most cases, reach weapons DON'T make it better to do the attack and move.&nbsp; Assuming your opponent has closed to within 5' of you, you can't attack until you move back 5'.&nbsp; Unless you have Spring attack, you can either move back 5' and attack (in which case your opponent just moves forward 5' and full-attacks on you next round), or you move back 10+ feat (incurring an AoO), out of your reach range, and ready an attack on your opponent.&nbsp; If you do the latter, AND your opponent closes with you, you'll get the two attacks you're normally entitled to (one for reach, one for readied action).&nbsp; However, a smart opponent may choose instead to attack someone else, meaning you get no attacks at all compared to his freebie AoO on you.&nbsp;Spiked chains need not apply to this analysis <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp;Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 1704660, member: 259"] Actually, in most cases, reach weapons DON'T make it better to do the attack and move. Assuming your opponent has closed to within 5' of you, you can't attack until you move back 5'. Unless you have Spring attack, you can either move back 5' and attack (in which case your opponent just moves forward 5' and full-attacks on you next round), or you move back 10+ feat (incurring an AoO), out of your reach range, and ready an attack on your opponent. If you do the latter, AND your opponent closes with you, you'll get the two attacks you're normally entitled to (one for reach, one for readied action). However, a smart opponent may choose instead to attack someone else, meaning you get no attacks at all compared to his freebie AoO on you. Spiked chains need not apply to this analysis :). Daniel [/QUOTE]

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