I am wondering whether its possible to do a riposte manouver as a battlemaster if I am leaving an enemy's reach, they do an attack of opportunity and miss.
Riposte
When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to make a melee weapon attack against the creature. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.
Opportunity Attacks
In a fight, everyone is constantly watching for a chance to strike an enemy who is fleeing or passing by. Such a strike is called an opportunity attack. You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To make the opportunity attack, you use your reaction to make one melee attack against the provoking creature. The attack occurs right before the creature leaves your reach.
RAW, it seems that riposte should be allowed to trigger on attack of opportunity, but it doesn't make sense at all. Immagine turning your back at the enemy and try to run away, so they try to strike you in the back, causing you to turn around and strike it before you retreat. It also means that you are using your reaction on your own turn, which seems a little weird to me, but I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed.
It is absolutely allowed to use reactions on your turn (assuming the requirements for the particular reaction are met). So you can riposte on a attack of opportunity that misses. You could make it work storywise if you say that the enemy attack missing makes them stagger just enough so you got time to wirl around and hit them - although you're already on your move.
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Hello everyone
I am wondering whether its possible to do a riposte manouver as a battlemaster if I am leaving an enemy's reach, they do an attack of opportunity and miss.
Riposte
When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to make a melee weapon attack against the creature. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.
Opportunity Attacks
In a fight, everyone is constantly watching for a chance to strike an enemy who is fleeing or passing by. Such a strike is called an opportunity attack.
You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To make the opportunity attack, you use your reaction to make one melee attack against the provoking creature. The attack occurs right before the creature leaves your reach.
RAW, it seems that riposte should be allowed to trigger on attack of opportunity, but it doesn't make sense at all. Immagine turning your back at the enemy and try to run away, so they try to strike you in the back, causing you to turn around and strike it before you retreat. It also means that you are using your reaction on your own turn, which seems a little weird to me, but I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed.
It is absolutely allowed to use reactions on your turn (assuming the requirements for the particular reaction are met). So you can riposte on a attack of opportunity that misses. You could make it work storywise if you say that the enemy attack missing makes them stagger just enough so you got time to wirl around and hit them - although you're already on your move.