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Do Booming Blade and the Spell Sniper feat stack?
If you have the spell sniper feat (doubles range of spells), and you use a weapon with reach, can you cast booming blade and hit a creature at 10ft?
Can you also combine this with the feats Polearm ...
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Does a Grapple or Shove count as a "melee attack" for the third benefit of the Mobile feat?
The third benefit of the Mobile feat (PHB, p. 168) enables you to not provoke opportunity attacks by creatures you try to make a melee attack against.
Does it still apply if the attack you made was a ...
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War Caster, a whip and a dagger, and provoking Opportunity Attacks
This related question gives an answer about provoking opportunity attacks when wielding a dagger and a whip.
I am interested how this interacts with the feat War Caster (5e PHB p170):
When a ...
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Does the War Caster feat grant ranged spell attacks in melee range without disadvantage?
An opportunity attack is described this way (PHB, p. 195):
You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To make the opportunity attack, you ...
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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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Does Sentinel work against creatures who can avoid Opportunity Attacks?
Sentinel states:
Creatures within 5 feet of you provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach.
Does this mean any creature at any time ...
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Do the Tunnel Fighter UA fighting style and the Polearm Master feat combine to grant indefinite opportunity attacks?
Here's the scenario:
The character in question has both the Tunnel Fighter fighting style from Unearthed Arcana: Light, Dark, Underdark!, which says:
You excel at defending narrow passages, ...
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Can you combine Polearm Master with War Caster to cast Booming Blade as enemies approach?
The Polearm Master feat (PHB, p. 168) says:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.
The ...
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Is the reaction from the third benefit of the Sentinel feat considered an opportunity attack?
The third benefit of the Sentinel feat is described as follows (PHB, p. 169):
When a creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack against a target other than you (and that target doesn’t have this ...
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Does Sentinel's opportunity attack trigger when I shove someone? [duplicate]
Alright, so me and my pal are working through making a 5e fighty Cleric. He wants to take the Sentinel and Shield Master feats. Sentinel and Shield Master's relevant parts read:
Sentinel
You have ...
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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.
Equipment
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Does teleporting into the reach of a character with the Polearm Master feat provoke an opportunity attack?
I understand the Player’s Handbook’s ruling on teleportation and opportunity attacks when teleporting out of someone’s reach: Are there any rules relevant to involuntary movement and effects other ...
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How does Polearm Master interact with Quarterstaff and Whip?
The Polearm Master feat reads:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.
Let's say my ...
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Can Warlock with the Polearm Master and War Caster Feats cast Eldritch Blast as an Opportunity Attack while wearing a shield, RAW?
I realize there is the RAI note out there that indicates Polearm Master's opportunity attack is only intended to work with the polearm that you're wielding, but some DMs accept the RAW interpretation ...
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Polearm master vs disengage
So I know that specific beats generic, but I'm not fully sure about polearm master. Anyone know for sure how these should interact? Have there been official rulings?
If I start a disengage action, ...
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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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Does Lightning Lure trigger Polearm Master's opportunity attack?
I know there is language about opportunity attacks that says:
You also don’t provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, ...
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Does an attack against an illusory duplicate from the Mirror Image spell trigger the Sentinel feat?
If I'm playing a Rogue with the mirror image spell and possess the Sentinel feat, do I get an opportunity attack if an enemy attacks me in melee but hits a mirror image instead?
Would this trigger ...
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When I walk towards an enemy and get within 10 feet, can I make an opportunity attack with Polearm Mastery and a reach weapon?
I have polearm mastery and a reach weapon. I am walking towards an enemy.
Polearm mastery says that I get an opportunity attack when a creature "enters my reach." It does not specify that said ...
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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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Which is likely to provide more chances to opportunity attack, Polearm Master or Sentinel (with War Caster)?
I'm wielding a staff focus, which doubles as a quarterstaff; so, it seems that Polearm Master + War Caster allows a PC to cast spells as reactions to enemies that enter its reach.
Similarly, ...
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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 an enemy that takes Disengage action provoke opportunity attack when moving toward someone with a pike and Polearm Mastery and Sentinel feat?
Polearm master vs disengage
I have a pike, Polearm Master, and Sentinel feats. An enemy that already takes Disengage action moves toward me.
The Polearm Master feat gives me an opportunity attack ...
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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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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.
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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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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 a proning opportunity attack end movement in the square a creature was moving from?
For the party I DM for, one of the Minotaur players has an nearly absurd (judgement call) feat called Opportunity Gore. Opportunity Gore lets a Minotaur use his racial power Goring Charge over and ...
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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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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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Are attacks of opportunity standard attacks for the purpose of feats like Vital Strike?
When making an attack of opportunity, does it count as a standard attack and thus benefits from feats such as Vital Strike?
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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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