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Can Eldritch Blast (with multiple blasts) be used as a Warcaster opportunity attack? [duplicate]
The War Caster feat says:
When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, rather than making an opportunity ...
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In the 2024 rules, is the Reactive Strike from Polearm Master considered an opportunity attack?
The 2024 Polearm Master feat says:
Reactive Strike. While you’re holding a Quarterstaff, a Spear, or a
weapon that has the Heavy and Reach properties, you can take a
Reaction to make one melee attack ...
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Do the Friends cantrip and War Caster feat allow a PC to heal another PC as a reaction?
The Friends cantrip turns a creature hostile.
When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you.
Opportunity attacks can be made ...
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When does the bonus damage of Booming Blade trigger when combined with Warcaster?
Picture the following scenario: I have an enemy in melee range who decides to move away without Disengaging, triggering an Opportunity Attack. However, I have the Warcaster feat:
When a hostile ...
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Does a Polearm Master with 10' reach get an opportunity attack vs an enemy 10' away when they step to only 5' away?
Polearm Master states:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter the reach you have with that weapon.
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How does the Crusher feat's push interact with opportunity attacks?
The second benefit of the Crusher feat says (TCoE, p. 79):
Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, you can move it 5 feet to an unoccupied space, provided ...
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Does trip trigger attack of opportunity when the PC has Improved Unarmed Strike?
Trip
You can try to trip an opponent as an unarmed melee attack. You can only trip an opponent who is one size category larger than you, the same size, or smaller.
Making a Trip Attack
Make an unarmed ...
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Can I use Polearm master with a spear and a whip to hold opponents at 10ft away? [duplicate]
RAW + This errata states:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.
Say an opponent ...
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Get Attack of Opportunity on Ranger
Disrupt Prey is strictly worse than Attack of Opportunity, as it only works against your Prey. (Severely limiting the possible triggers)
A Fighter Dedication + Opportunist feat would take care of that,...
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Sentinel Feat vs. Creatures with Flyby [duplicate]
From the Players Handbook, the Sentinel feat grants the following abilities:
When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
Creatures ...
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Polearm Master opportunity attack [closed]
The Polearm Master feat says "...creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter the reach you have with that weapon."
The "Reach" property of a polearm says it ...
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Could a Suggested ally be a target for an opportunity attack?
In a recent combat situation, a Yuan-ti cast Suggestion on one of my players, a cleric, and ordered him to run away from combat. Ingeniously, another one of my players, a monk, made an opportunity ...
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When casting Infestation as an opportunity attack with the War Caster feat, how does the forced movement affect the targets turn?
With the War Caster feat, you are allowed to cast a spell as a reaction when a target provokes an opportunity attack. The infestation cantrip states that the creature
moves 5 feet in a random ...
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Do creatures subject to Stand Still or Pin Down lose the action that provoked the feat?
Pin Down
Benefit: Whenever an opponent you threaten takes a 5-foot step or uses the withdraw action, that opponent provokes an attack of opportunity from you. If the attack hits, you deal no damage, ...
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When the War Caster feat lets my Echo Knight fighter cast a spell instead of the Manifest Echo feature's opportunity attack, where is it cast from?
This question is inspired by the following one: Can an Echo Knight with the War Caster feat use cantrips for opportunity attacks made by their Echo?
Part of the Echo Knight fighter's Manifest Echo ...
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Can an Echo Knight with the War Caster feat use spells in place of opportunity attacks made by their Echo?
The Echo Knight fighter has the Manifest Echo feature, which grants the following ability, among others (EGtW, p. 183):
When a creature that you can see within 5 feet of your echo moves at least 5 ...
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If a creature is hit by an OA by someone with the Sentinel feat, but then gains a new type of speed, does that new speed also become 0 for the turn?
The first benefit of the Sentinel feat says (PHB, p. 169-170):
When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
If a character with the ...
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If a character with the Polearm Master feat teleports into a space within reach of an enemy, can they make an opportunity attack upon arrival?
I have a character that can swap locations with another via teleportation as an action. (Specifically, it is the UA Mystic's Transposition effect from the Nomadic Step discipline, but the School of ...
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Can the third benefit of the Mobile feat prevent multiple creatures you attack in a single turn from making opportunity attacks against you that turn?
I am playing a monk. I wanted to use the Mobile feat, specifically the third option that prevents opportunity attacks, to do the following:
hit creature 1 with my attack, then move away from creature ...
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Can you combine Polearm Master, Tunnel Fighter, and Warcaster (with Repelling Blast)?
We have a player who is playing a Fighter with a level of Warlock, wielding a polearm, and they say they should be able to get the initial opportunity attack from Polearm Master when a foe enters ...
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Can a Gelatinous Cube's Engulf be stopped by the Sentinel feat?
The first part of the Gelatinous Cube’s Engulf reads:
Engulf. The cube moves up to its speed. While doing so, it can enter Large or smaller creatures' spaces. Whenever the cube enters a creature's ...
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Does the Blink spell provoke an opportunity attack from someone with the Polearm Master feat?
Would reappearing from blink allow for an attack of opportunity against the caster from someone with Polearm Master?
While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures ...
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Can I still choose to allow an opportunity attack against me if I have the Mobile feat?
The third benefit of the Mobile feat says (PHB, p. 168):
When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether ...
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How do melee spell attacks interact with the Mobile feat? [duplicate]
The Mobile feat states that:
When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether you hit or not.
Does that ...
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Can Opportunity Attacks by a mounted PC with the Mounted Combatant feat be made with Advantage?
Can Opportunity Attacks have Advantage? For instance, if a character with the Mounted Combatant feat was to perform an attack of opportunity on a smaller creature while mounted, would that attack have ...
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Does an opportunity attack proc. Polearm Master's bonus action?
Does Polearm Master's bonus attack action proc. on an opportunity attack of a monster entering my reach?
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Does this Eldritch Knight using Polearm (Glaive) build work? [duplicate]
EDIT: Thank you for all the links you provided answering the first part of the post, regarding the stacking of Polearm Master (PAM), War Caster (WC) work and Spell Sniper (SS) feats. [if someone didn'...
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How do the War Caster feat and the Enemies Abound spell interact when an opportunity attack is provoked?
The enemies abound spell states:
[...] If an enemy provokes an opportunity attack from the affected creature, the creature must make that attack if it is able to [...]
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Can the Sidestep feat be used to avoid attacks?
The sidestep feat states the following:
Once per round, when you make an attack of opportunity, you may take a 5- foot step after you attack. This 5-foot step doesn't count against your limit of ...
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Can a character with the War Caster feat cast a Touch/5-foot range spell instead of making an opportunity attack with a reach weapon?
This is a follow-up to an answer to a question about War Caster & Reach weapons. It is not the accepted answer, but it is the most upvoted one by a large margin so let's stipulate that yes, a War ...
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How many times per round can I use the goblin racial feat Roll With It?
How many times per round of combat can I use the Goblin racial feat Roll With It?
The feat itself does not specify once per turn; however, I have had it ruled both ways in the past, and am simply ...
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Does the Sentinel feat allow opportunity attacks to be provoked when enemies move towards you?
I was chatting with one of my party mates, and we were debating whether the Sentinel feat allowed me to get an opportunity attack if the enemy is approaching me. The reason I ask this is because I ...
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How does the War Caster feat interact with a Hydra's Reactive Heads trait?
The War Caster feat gives the following property:
When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, rather than ...
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Can a character with the Polearm Master feat make an opportunity attack against an invisible creature that enters their reach?
The second benefit of the Polearm Master feat (PHB, p. 168) says:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when ...
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Is there a difference between provoking an Opportunity Attack (OA) and being the target of an OA?
Based on this question regarding the interaction of Mounted Combatant and Mobile Feats, there seems to be a possible loophole regarding provoking an OA and being the target of an OA.
Does the ...
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How do the Mounted Combatant and Mobile feats interact with opportunity attacks?
In short, when a Mounted Combatant & Mobile feat user redirects an attack from their mount, does that attack fail?
Obviously, all the conditions that allow a mobile user to avoid opportunity ...
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Does Deceitful Incompetence combine with Opportune Parry and Riposte?
In Opportune Parry and Riposte it says that you expend an Attack of Opportunity to try to parry your opponent's attack. So, could a Swashbuckler (or a Spear Fighter) keep having increasing bonuses ...
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How does the War Caster feat interact with opportunity attacks? [closed]
When an enemy disengages one of your allies in combat, does this provoke an opportunity attack for all PCs that can see the enemy and respond (i.e. weapon ready) including with long-range attacks like ...
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Can you combine War Caster, whip, and Warlock Features to Eldritch Blast enemies with reach?
So, Whip is a one-handed martial weapon with reach. Reach is a feature that, among other things, lets you make opportunity attacks with that weapon out to 10 feet instead of just five.
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Cometary Collision vs a Large opponent's AoO
So I have this situation: Largo the Large, who is Large (and a humanoid, so he gets reach), charges Count Countercharge, who has readied his Cometary Collision feat, and is Medium-sized.
The question ...
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Does the Feat "Shorten Grip" allow an Attack of Opportunity against an adjacent opponent?
Shorten Grip: When wielding a pole arm with reach that you are proficient with, you may treat the weapon as if it did not have reach. The weapon is unwieldy when used in this fashion and you take a -2 ...
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How do attacks of opportunity interact with the Hammer the Gap feat? [closed]
I have a Fighter with Two Weapon Fighting, Improved Two Weapon Fighting, Greater Trip and Hammer the Gap.
I have two questions about that:
Does 'hitting' the trip counts as a 'hit' for Hammer the ...
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How does the Savage Attacker feat interact with opportunity attacks?
The Savage Attacker feat (PHB, p. 169) states that you can reroll a melee weapon's damage dice "once per turn".
If I used Savage Attacker on my turn, and then I get an opportunity attack when an ...
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If you have the Sentinel feat, can you choose not to reduce a creature's speed to zero when you hit with an opportunity attack?
Assuming you have the Sentinel feat, can you choose to not reduce an opponent's speed to zero when you hit them with an opportunity attack?
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Does the Snap Kick feat apply to Attacks of Opportunity?
Does the Snap Kick feat work on Attacks of Opportunity (letting you make another attack)?
If yes, is the -2 to attack rolls cumulative?
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If you have the War Caster feat and cast Booming Blade as a reaction, does it count as an opportunity attack for the UA Blade Mastery feat?
The third benefit of the Blade Mastery feat (from Unearthed Arcana: Feats) says:
You master the shortsword, longsword, scimitar, rapier, and greatsword. You gain the following benefits when using any ...
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Where does the Stand Still feat stop movement?
Stand Still lets you stop somebody's movement when you make an attack of opportunity against them. If an adjacent opponent moves out of a square adjacent to you (without withdrawing or otherwise ...
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Is the spell from the third benefit of the War Caster feat still considered an opportunity attack for the Sentinel feat?
The third benefit of the War Caster feat (PHB, p. 170) allows you to cast a spell when an enemy provokes an opportunity attack from you. The spell must target only the provoking creature, and can ...
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Do opportunity attacks work as a trigger for my Sentinel opportunity attack?
The Sentinel feat allows me an opportunity attack against an enemy who attacks an ally within reach.
Does this still apply if said attack was an opportunity attack made by the enemy, because my ally ...
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Does the Sentinel feat allow opportunity attacks against the Mobile feat? [duplicate]
The Sentinel feat (PHB, pg. 170) says:
Creatures provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach.
The Mobile feat (PHB, pg. 168) says:
When ...
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