Polearm master spell sniper
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You can club people with the side, jab them with the butt end, etc. If this doesn’t jive with your sense of how a polearm works (the pointy bit is very far away in that moment), remember that polearm fighting historically was not all about the pointy end. As the player has the Polearm Master feat, this also means they are able to make an Opportunity Attack in that moment. RAW, this makes them a valid target for Opportunity Attack.
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In the case of your wall-travelling creature, they have exited the wall and into a space the player can target within their reach. When the target exits the wall, they are entering the players reach. To my mind, a reasonable (and player empowering) interpretation is to view reach as something that goes out up to ten feet, for polearm masters, and walls constrain or interrupt that. If your reach extends into the wall, can you attack the creature while they are in the wall? If so, they get their Polearm Master OA when the creature moves into the section of wall within their reach.Īttacking a target in a wall doesn’t seem reasonable to me, barring some sort of siege weapon. As mentioned, this approach assumes Reach can include spaces you can’t enter or affect.Explicitly taking away an option they spent an ability point increase on does not seem like a good approach to ensure your players are having a good time. Polearm Masters hit things as they approach. Most importantly to me, you are explicitly taking away a PC’s feat here.I think this is a poor approach to take, for a couple of reasons. On the other hand, that interpretation implies your reach can include the walls around you as space you can affect. If we look at this strictly from the viewpoint of linear distance, when they exit the wall they are moving within your reach and do not trigger an Opportunity Attack. On one hand, the creature was within 10’ while within the wall, which does put them within reach range of your Polearm Master’s weapon. This language creates an interesting situation that has pointed out. “While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter the reach you have with that weapon.” Polearm weapons increase your reach to 10’, but there is no language stating that this creates a bubble of 5’ within that reach where you cannot make Opportunity Attacks. I don’t have my DMG handy, but the text in the SRD is “This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you Attack with it, as well as when determining your reach for Opportunity Attacks with it” (emphasis mine).ĥe does not have a mechanic for getting within the reach of a polearm weapon as you describe – if you’re within reach, you are a valid target for Attack actions or Opportunity Attack reactions (barring status effects or other external factors). It’s been a while since I played an earlier edition, but 5e makes reach much simpler and purely additive.