Titan Mauler "Evade Reach"

[GnomePaladin]

So I was looking at the Titan Mauler archetype for barbarians. Their 5th level ability "Evade Reach" is described as.

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Evade Reach (Ex)

At 5th level, as a swift action, a titan mauler may choose one creature within her line of sight. Until the end of her turn, that target’s reach is treated as if it were 5 feet shorter with respect to reaching the titan mauler, and this reduction increases by 5 feet for every five levels beyond 5th.

This ability replaces improved uncanny dodge.

Could this reduce a creatures reach to 0 ft. and make it unable to fight with anything except grapple? (and even then I'm not sure they could)

NOTE: This is purely out of curiosity, I would never do this as it seems horribly abusive.

[Archaeik]

Wow, this looks like it works...

I'm not sure if the intent was ever to be able to reduce something's reach to 0ft, but it certainly does that, AND messes over reach weapon users who can't attack adjacent...

Also, I thought anything with zero reach had to enter your square to attack with melee (which would include grapples, even though RAW would then move the grappled target to an adjacent square. lawls)

[GnomePaladin]

EDIT: I get it now. Its until the end of the Titan Maulers Turn and thus it wouldn't matter anyways.

[FireberdGNOME]

GnomePaladin wrote:

EDIT: I get it now. Its until the end of the Titan Maulers Turn and thus it wouldn't matter anyways.

Makes attacks of opportunity against the Titan Mauler tough, though ;)

GNOME