Timeline for In D&D 4E can effects that come before the attack line, make an attack power legal to use?
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 13:26 | comment | added | Oblivious Sage♦ | @ChristopherMathieu Again, I agree with you, but someone who has already decided that the teleport effect is limited by the melee range will say that the 5 square teleport is there so that you can teleport to the opposite side of a foe even if you're 1 square away from them and holding a melee weapon or if the foe is bigger than medium size. You are correct, but your point won't work to convince someone who doesn't already think you're correct. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 13:20 | comment | added | Christopher Mathieu | @ObliviousSage That's the thing about powers in 4e: You're not supposed to try to interpret their intent, or extrapolate. You simply do what they say, in the order presented. The assassin power in the question begins with "teleport 5 squares to a square adjacent to the target", so that's all you do. If you're using a reach weapon, you still go to an adjacent square; if the closest square that's next to the target is 6 squares away, the power will fail to function. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 12:39 | comment | added | Oblivious Sage♦ | @ChristopherMathieu Someone being obstinate would then claim that the 5 square range is in case you're wielding a reach weapon and/or fighting a large (or even bigger) foe. Once someone starts interpreting the power wrong, they're likely to find justifications for continuing to do so. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 11:57 | comment | added | Christopher Mathieu | Here's another point you could add: if the ability were supposed to simply let you reposition yourself around an adjacent enemy, the teleport effect would only be 2 squares at most. Since it allows up to 5, that's not what the power intended. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 1:56 | comment | added | Oblivious Sage♦ | As is sometimes the case in 4e, it's not explicitly listed because it never occurred to the designers that someone might interpret it another way. There are a number of powers that explicitly state that their effect line is limited by their range, however, which implies that effects that do not state that are not limited by their range. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 1:44 | comment | added | user25129 | Thanks heaps, is there something I can reference to show to my player, perhaps in one of the books? I had a look but could find nothing. I'm not sure I can see him taking the word of someone's comment over the internet. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 0:56 | history | answered | Oblivious Sage♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |