For extra fun, if you can force move a melee attacker out of their reach, you can guarantee movement (and damage). For example, use a Warhammer for the Push Weapon Mastery, have allies use Push weapons (Heavy Crossbow) or similar effects (Telekinetic Shove from the Telekinetic feat). Add extra battlefield control with Slow weapons so that a single melee enemy has to struggle to deal damage.
I'd say that pushing a creature shouldn't trigger Booming Blade, as it's an unwilling movement.
It's not the push that triggers the damage, I mentioned a melee enemy so that they have to willingly move back into melee range.
Ok, I understand now. The part that confused me was "if you can force move a melee attacker out of their reach, you can guarantee movement".
As @Plaguescarred mentioned in the comment above, it’s up to the creature to come back or not. Maybe they'd prefer to surrender :D
Or, I suppose, they could teleport if they can (several of the elves, for example).
Is it? Teleportation is still moving. It says it doesn't provoke opportunity attacks, but it doesn't say it doesn't count as moving.
If you teleport, you disappear and reappear elsewhere instantly, without moving through the intervening space.
Right, you haven't moved through the intervening space, but you've still moved because you're in a different place from where you were. I'm not saying this definitely triggers the Booming Blade effect, I'm just saying it doesn't seem obvious.
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Or, I suppose, they could teleport if they can (several of the elves, for example).
They could, Teleportation is a way to get around Booming Blade Catch-22.
Is it? Teleportation is still moving. It says it doesn't provoke opportunity attacks, but it doesn't say it doesn't count as moving.
If you teleport, you disappear and reappear elsewhere instantly, without moving through the intervening space.
While not official ruling per se, if it interest anyone the Dev did mention Booming Blade means movement in the game's normal sense.
Right, you haven't moved through the intervening space, but you've still moved because you're in a different place from where you were. I'm not saying this definitely triggers the Booming Blade effect, I'm just saying it doesn't seem obvious.