| SwiftyKun |
If you charge with a lance against a brace weapon that doesn't have reach, the brace is virtually useless, correct?
When readying an action to brace, does it go off if you're charged, or does it go off if the enemy enters a specific square you chose to set your brace in? I.E. just the square in front of you, or the area you threaten. I ask this because the feat ride by attack would essentially nullify all bracing attempts if the brace was the prior. You would then be charging PAST someone and not AT someone.
| SwiftyKun |
Brace does not automatically grant you reach. it only works if you threaten them.
there is no facing, so no in front of. It goes off on all squares you threaten. So if they ride by you they take the attack.
That is what I thought at first. But, there's a difference between readying a brace and simply readying an attack. Otherwise the text for "bracing" would read as "you ready an attack". Lance's have reach, which is why I asked if it works against Brace because indeed not all bracing items have reach.
When you Brace, usually, it's planting or bracing the weapon in question against the ground, yourself, or some other hard surface and keeping it there, not readying an attack against anything that comes within the vicinity of your person.