Hot answers tagged forced-movement
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Yes, both those pushes are valid.
When you push a creature, each square you move it must place it farther away from you. [RC 211)
Now, 4e measurements use taxicab geometry, or Chebyshev distance, so the effect is... often nonintuitive. I'm pretty sure 4e floors are constantly shifting hyperplanes. My players have developed the mantra, "Circles are ...
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No
Polearm Gamble could be expanded into a power card that would look like this:
Opportunity Action
Trigger: A nonadjacent enemy enters a square adjacent to you
Effect: You take an opportunity attack against that enemy and grant that enemy combat advantage until the end of its turn.
Rules Compendium p.200 states:
enter a square: Move into a square on ...
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The character gets one (and only one) saving throw.
The two sections you noted are referring to the same saving throw.
On page 207, the Hindering Terrain -> Saving Throw section ends with
See "Forced Movement" and "Teleportation" discussed later in this section
Page 212 is within the Forced Movement section and contains the details about how to ...
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It's not forced movement, but per the Player's Handbook errata, trying to teleport creatures into dangerous terrain or to a spot where they will fall gives them an immediate saving throw to avoid the teleport.
Teleportation
Page 286: Replace the text for the Destination entry
and the Immobilized entry. This change addresses
what happens when a ...
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Pushing an grabber away from a target he has grabbed usually breaks the grab. There are a few exceptions, where the grab is not broken and the grabbed target gets brought along for the ride, in some cases of special enemies like the Gelatinous Cube [ddi].
Engulf (acid) At-Will
Requirement: The cube must have no more than two creatures grabbed
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Yes
D&D is based on broad rules, with many exceptions. Polearm Gamble uses deliberate arduous wording depicting that any enemy not adjacent who enters, not moves, into a square adjacent draws an OA.
DMs can houserule it not to if they wish. But as written, OAs are granted.
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