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<blockquote data-quote="jasin" data-source="post: 4563711" data-attributes="member: 7531">Excluding even shifts would make Booming Blade terribly limited, but it was exactly this kind of reasoning that ultimately led me to ask my original question.See, I wanted to make sure whether it would work on shifts, but when I looked at the list of actions in combat in the PHB, there actually isn't such an action as &quot;move&quot;. There's &quot;shift&quot;, &quot;walk&quot;, &quot;run&quot;, all move actions that result in different kinds of movement, so it seems to me that each of those would result in the target &quot;moving away&quot; and taking damage from Booming Blade.But then &quot;push&quot;, &quot;pull&quot; or &quot;slide&quot; also result in different kinds of movement, so...Then again, Cause Fear (and many other powers) use a wording along the lines of &quot;you can move&quot;, which apparently means the same thing (for creatures without unusual movement modes) as &quot;walk&quot;.But yet again, some powers (the warlord's Villain's Nightmare, for example) that could use &quot;walk&quot; instead, implying this is not the same thing as &quot;walk&quot;.Or maybe we're just expecting more precision with the keywords than the books offer. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jasin, post: 4563711, member: 7531"] Excluding even shifts would make Booming Blade terribly limited, but it was exactly this kind of reasoning that ultimately led me to ask my original question. See, I wanted to make sure whether it would work on shifts, but when I looked at the list of actions in combat in the PHB, there actually isn't such an action as "move". There's "shift", "walk", "run", all move actions that result in different kinds of movement, so it seems to me that each of those would result in the target "moving away" and taking damage from Booming Blade. But then "push", "pull" or "slide" also result in different kinds of movement, so... Then again, Cause Fear (and many other powers) use a wording along the lines of "you can move", which apparently means the same thing (for creatures without unusual movement modes) as "walk". But yet again, some powers (the warlord's Villain's Nightmare, for example) that could use "walk" instead, implying this is not the same thing as "walk". Or maybe we're just expecting more precision with the keywords than the books offer. :) [/QUOTE]

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