Range rules on Riposting Impposibly?


Rules Discussion


So a silly question here as I've just now picked up the Impossible Riposte feat:

Impossible Riposte:
Feat 14
Swashbuckler
Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 93 2.0
Prerequisites Opportune Riposte
Your ripostes can deflect attacks back at their source. You can use Opportune Riposte with a trigger of “A foe outside of your reach critically fails an attack roll against you” in addition to its usual trigger. When you use Opportune Riposte with this new trigger against a ranged attack, your Strike deflects some of the triggering effect back toward its source. Compare the result of your attack roll to the AC of the triggering foe. On a hit, you deal the normal amount of damage for your Strike, but the damage type changes to that of the triggering attack. For instance, if you used Opportune Riposte to deflect a ray of frost, your Strike would deal cold damage instead of its normal damage type.
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So what I'm wondering is this:

Spellcaster a targets my swashbuckler with a Ray of Frost at 120 ft.
Spellcaster gets a nat 1.
Washbuckler initiates Riposte

What, if any, range penalties would the ricocheted spell/attack get? Especially if said swash is using a +2 Greater Striking Frost shortsword (+28 for 3d6+7 piercing + 1d6 cold + 5 extra if panache is in play)?

Thanks in advance!


Oh, and forgot to mention the char is lv15 in the math above.

Horizon Hunters

A sniper with a longbow stands up from his hilltop perch over 400 feet away from me. He launches an arrow in my direction.

Sword out, I watch coolly for a couple of seconds as the arrow arcs towards me. I can tell that is is going to be off target by a couple of feet because of the range of the shot this fool took. Thinking quickly, I shift my position slightly and swat the arrow like an annoying mosquito right before it would have landed in the mud.

The arrow speeds back the direction it came from, striking the would-be assassin in the arm.

'Impossible', you say?

Well, to that, I say, 'absolutely'. That is why it is called Impossible Riposte.


Yeah, the feat doesn't mention anything about range penalties when you make your Riposte attack against the target's AC. So I guess it doesn't use any.

If it does, then it would use the same range penalty that the triggering attack would suffer from. In your example of Ray of Frost, it has no range penalty, so neither would your Riposte. In my example of a longbow in the 3rd range increment, the triggering attack would have a -6 penalty - so with this ruling the Riposte attack would also have a -6 penalty.

But like I mentioned, the feat doesn't mention anything about that. So by RAW, if someone launches a ranged attack at a Swashbuckler from extreme range, that is just as bad of an idea as taking a 3rd attack against one at full -10 MAP.

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