Here the feat is
Benefit: When an opponent charges your ally with this feat, as an immediate action you can move up to your speed toward any square in the path of the charge. If you end your movement in the path of the charge, the opponent must stop when it becomes adjacent to you and then attack you instead of your ally. Your movement from using this feat counts toward your movement on your next turn.
- 1.) Up to your speed toward any square in the path of the charge. you end in the path of the charge...
What if you move toward a square and dont end in the path of the charge? More specifically if you have a reach weapon (and combat reflexes with appropriate amount of DEX will be assumed the rest of this article) could you stop 1 square shy and then poke the charger 3 times for the AOO's? - 2.) If you dont have a reach weapon and stop next to the line, same question as above? It states more specifically that IF you are in the line it will stop and attack you instead.
- 3.) What if you have a brace weapon and you ready action brace. Word that how you will. Do you get a brace vs the attack? Would you get one or more than one? (the second part of that is dependent on the answers above)
- 4.) Unrelated to the feat but I just thought of it. In a normal situation (not talking about intercept charge here) and you brace, do you only get 1 brace? For example if 2 or more guys charge you and you have combat ref., does the brace part affect all chargers or just 1? My gut says just 1 but I would like clarification.
I feel that RAI its you have to be in the path of the charge for the feat to work, but I'm more curious about RAW in this case.
I feel its unclear.
1. No. His movement only provokes one AoO from you no matter how many threatened squares he moves through. You get your AoO, he keeps moving if he can and continues his charge, attacking your ally. But he cannot attack you since you didn't get in his path. And if you kill him or knock him unconscious or trip him, you will end his charge without you or your ally getting hit.
2. Same answer as above.
3. You cannot use your Immediate action to Brace. Bracing against a charge is a Readied Action - readying an action requires you to use a Standard action on your turn.
4. Just one - you Ready an action to Brace against a charge. THAT charge is the trigger for your readied action. When you take it, you're done. No more readied actions, no more triggers - other charging enemies are safe form you for this round.
No, if RAI wanted you in the path, RAW would say that you MUST end in the path of the charge. It doesn't.
So you can choose to be in the path, take the hit from the charging enemy, and save your ally. Or you can choose to be near the path and let your ally take the hit from the charge (if you're close enough, you could get an AoO on the charging guy which might or might not save your ally but either way, you don't take the hit from his charge).
1. Why only 1 AOO? You could easily position yourself (assuming you have the movement required) next to his line and he would run through 3 threatened squares. stab, stab, stab.
2. "" "" Adding to above, if you were just standing there without use of the feat and they wanted to charge past you the same situation should occur
3. The action is already readied. The immediate action just affects where you stand
4. Alright I figured thanks
1. Why only 1 AOO? You could easily position yourself (assuming you have the movement required) next to his line and he would run through 3 threatened squares. stab, stab, stab.
2. "" "" Adding to above, if you were just standing there without use of the feat and they wanted to charge past you the same situation should occur
3. The action is already readied. The immediate action just affects where you stand
4. Alright I figured thanks
1) The movement action only provokes once regardless of how many threatened squares they move through.
2) The movement action only provokes once regardless of how many threatened squares they move through.
Moving out of a threatened square usually provokes attacks of opportunity from threatening opponents.Why do you only get one? If you adjacent to the path of the charge they potentially move through 3 threatened squares. I havent been able to find only provoking once per move action
EDIT Oh, here it is.
Combat Reflexes and Additional Attacks of Opportunity: If you have the Combat Reflexes feat, you can add your Dexterity bonus to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in a round. This feat does not let you make more than one attack for a given opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you, you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportunity). Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn't count as more than one opportunity for that opponent. All these attacks are at your full normal attack bonus.