If a homebrew monster has a reach of 30 feet or greater, but the PCs can still hit the monster without getting close to the creature's torso, does that introduce any strange rules interactions?
Well, it means the PCs can run around the thing without drawing OAs, since they’d need to go 35’ away before leaving its reach.
Okay, so the point being that being able to run around is OP? Sorry, please clarify as I am not drawing the conclusion you seem to imply is natural.
Opportunity Attacks are generated when something leaves a creature's reach. (See: Moving Around Other Creatures) In your instance, the PCs would potentially never leave the reach of your monster unless they left its reach, at 35 feet. Which is subsequently, further than most PCs movement speed. Not sure that it's OP, just out of the norm.
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Well, it means the PCs can run around the thing without drawing OAs, since they’d need to go 35’ away before leaving its reach.
Okay, so the point being that being able to run around is OP? Sorry, please clarify as I am not drawing the conclusion you seem to imply is natural.
Opportunity Attacks are generated when something leaves a creature's reach. (See: Moving Around Other Creatures) In your instance, the PCs would potentially never leave the reach of your monster unless they left its reach, at 35 feet. Which is subsequently, further than most PCs movement speed. Not sure that it's OP, just out of the norm.
Yes. This is what I was getting at. I don’t think it will be OP, just odd. And you were asking about strange rules interactions, so to my mind, this qualifies as strange.
If a homebrew monster has a reach of 30 feet or greater, but the PCs can still hit the monster without getting close to the creature's torso, does that introduce any strange rules interactions?
If they can hit the torso with a melee attack "from 30 feet away", then the creature doesn't really have reach, it just has a really big torso.
Well, the PCs would be able to hit parts of the monster to do damage, but the monster's regular attacks and opportunity attacks extend out 30 feet.
Well, it means the PCs can run around the thing without drawing OAs, since they’d need to go 35’ away before leaving its reach.
Okay, so the point being that being able to run around is OP? Sorry, please clarify as I am not drawing the conclusion you seem to imply is natural.
Opportunity Attacks are generated when something leaves a creature's reach. (See: Moving Around Other Creatures) In your instance, the PCs would potentially never leave the reach of your monster unless they left its reach, at 35 feet. Which is subsequently, further than most PCs movement speed. Not sure that it's OP, just out of the norm.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
Yes. This is what I was getting at. I don’t think it will be OP, just odd. And you were asking about strange rules interactions, so to my mind, this qualifies as strange.
Great! Thank you.