You can avoid provoking an opportunity attack by taking the Disengage action. You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction.
And if you have a familiar you can poof into existence on the other side of said door, saving the need for squinting through a keyhole (assuming said keyhole even penetrates fully through the door; not all doors lock in both directions.
What about Misty Step being used to take you within the reach of a foe with polearm master? So movement towards a foe with Misty Step, not away.
"You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction." -PHB p.195
and...
"While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach." - PHB p.168
This would seem to me, to be a case of the general rule being no opportunity attack for the teleport, but the feat being a specific rule wins out, so there is an opportunity attack entering the reach. Not sure though, figured I would throw it out. PAM seems to be the fairly rare case of the opportunity attack being triggered by movement towards, rather than movement away.
What about Misty Step being used to take you within the reach of a foe with polearm master? So movement towards a foe with Misty Step, not away.
"You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction." -PHB p.195
and...
"While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach." - PHB p.168
This would seem to me, to be a case of the general rule being no opportunity attack for the teleport, but the feat being a specific rule wins out, so there is an opportunity attack entering the reach. Not sure though, figured I would throw it out. PAM seems to be the fairly rare case of the opportunity attack being triggered by movement towards, rather than movement away.
Hmm... I'd rule that it doesn't provoke an OA from PAM, but I can see how it could (since it would definitely count as entering an area of effect for example). Most since OAs are generally not triggered by teleportation, and carrying that rule over.
What about Misty Step being used to take you within the reach of a foe with polearm master? So movement towards a foe with Misty Step, not away.
"You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction." -PHB p.195
and...
"While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach." - PHB p.168
This would seem to me, to be a case of the general rule being no opportunity attack for the teleport, but the feat being a specific rule wins out, so there is an opportunity attack entering the reach. Not sure though, figured I would throw it out. PAM seems to be the fairly rare case of the opportunity attack being triggered by movement towards, rather than movement away.
Hmm... I'd rule that it doesn't provoke an OA from PAM, but I can see how it could (since it would definitely count as entering an area of effect for example). Most since OAs are generally not triggered by teleportation, and carrying that rule over.
That is the general rule with teleportation, I agree. I think the PAM feat's specific rule trumps it though. So if you are using Misty Step to get away from the polearm master, no opportunity attack. If you are entering his/her reach with Misty Step, then there is an opportunity attack. You are entering the range and staying there. The assumption of the section on opportunity attack is a creature going away from you. Polearm Master feat is something coming towards you, which is very specific.
And doubtful this event is going to happen very often. More of a test of the RAW. You be correct in the RAI, btw. I think the RAI is harder to definitively answer though. The rules can't forsee all eventualities.
What about Misty Step being used to take you within the reach of a foe with polearm master? So movement towards a foe with Misty Step, not away.
"You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction." -PHB p.195
and...
"While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach." - PHB p.168
This would seem to me, to be a case of the general rule being no opportunity attack for the teleport, but the feat being a specific rule wins out, so there is an opportunity attack entering the reach. Not sure though, figured I would throw it out. PAM seems to be the fairly rare case of the opportunity attack being triggered by movement towards, rather than movement away.
Hmm... I'd rule that it doesn't provoke an OA from PAM, but I can see how it could (since it would definitely count as entering an area of effect for example). Most since OAs are generally not triggered by teleportation, and carrying that rule over.
That is the general rule with teleportation, I agree. I think the PAM feat's specific rule trumps it though. So if you are using Misty Step to get away from the polearm master, no opportunity attack. If you are entering his/her reach with Misty Step, then there is an opportunity attack. You are entering the range and staying there. The assumption of the section on opportunity attack is a creature going away from you. Polearm Master feat is something coming towards you, which is very specific.
And doubtful this event is going to happen very often. More of a test of the RAW. You be correct in the RAI, btw. I think the RAI is harder to definitively answer though. The rules can't forsee all eventualities.
You could argue that PAM only adds entering to the list of OA triggers (previously only leaving), and since it doesn't mention teleportation it doesn't change the general rule.
Either way, I don't think it is RAI, and since teleportation almost certainly takes a limited resource for each use, my ruling would be to not have the OA trigger.
You are entering the range and staying there. The assumption of the section on opportunity attack is a creature going away from you. Polearm Master feat is something coming towards you, which is very specific.
The whole point of a teleport is that there is no actual normal movement. You aren't "entering" the space from an adjacent space; you're just suddenly there. I see no reason for PAM to apply any more than, say, Sentinel would.
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The attack of opportunity rules, in and of themselves, say that the movement has to be willing in order to provoke the attack. If you want to leave a threatened area, you may use Disengage. One of the parts of PMM removes their ability to Disengage, and allows you to attack people who are willing to move towards you get attacked. Sentinel makes it so they can't move if they get hit. The key word is "willing" in both cases. You have to move yourself.
If you take a Misty Step into the threatened area, and they have the ability to attack inside it, you get attacked. Misty Step allows you to choose your destination. If someone else uses a any means to force you into the threatened area, you don't get attacked.
At least, that's how I think it works. I am often incorrect, and at other times, I am flat out wrong. The difference between "incorrect" and "wrong" is that one is a mistake, the other means you have no idea what you are talking about. I am more frequently incorrect, but I am wrong some of the time.
Teleportation never triggers Opportunity Attack, wether standard or PAM. It would take an exception and have to be clearly stated otherwise, similar to how Sentinel state it for Disengage.
Exemple "Creatures within your reach provoke opportunity attacks even if they teleport." or similar wording. Not sure any exist.
Looking at the wording in RAW, I think it is fair to say you can interpret it both ways without one being strictly wrong according to RAW. RAI is most likely that the opportunity attack is provoked when a creature tries to move from a bordering square outside your reach to a bordering square inside your reach (why else would this be a specific benefit tied to weapons with long reach?).
However, I have another take on a RAW/RAI interpretation that might help explain why it doesn't provoke an opportunity attack to teleport within reach of a character with the Polearm Master feat. My interpretation centers around the following part of the rules for Opportunity Attacks:
In order for an opportunity attack to be provoked you must be able to see the creature as it enters your reach.
Below are two different scenarios: 1. A character (C1) uses Misty Step to teleport within 5 feet of a character with the Polearm Master feat (C2). In this scenario C2 sees C1 only when he is within 5 feet. Mechanically C1 entered C2's reach when he was 5 foot from him.
2. C1 uses Invisibility to move within 5 foot of C2, where C1 drops the spell and becomes visible. In this scenario C2 likewise sees C1 only when he is within 5 feet. However, mechanically C1 entered C2's reach when he was 10 foot from him.
The difference between scenario 1 and 2 is purely one of game mechanics, and you'd have a hard time narratively explaining why they shouldn't be ruled the same way in the game. If anything, according to RAW, C2 might have heard or otherwise perceived the invisible C1 moving closer in scenario 2, whereas there would be no such heads-up in scenario 1. That being the case, I would personally find it odd to interpret C1 in scenario 1 (invisible) to be better protected against opportunity attacks than C1 in scenario 2 (teleport).
Opportunity Attacks, Polearm Master, and Sentinel:
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, so while you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach, and even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach then the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn, and when a creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack against a target other than you, that occurs right before the creature leaves your reach (and that target doesn't have this feat), you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature, You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction. For example, you don't provoke an opportunity attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe's reach or if gravity causes you to fall past an enemy.
The Misty Step spell says that you are briefly surrounded by silvery mist, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
So as near as I can figure, the Misty Step spell does not provoke an Attack of Opportunity.
You are entering the range and staying there. The assumption of the section on opportunity attack is a creature going away from you. Polearm Master feat is something coming towards you, which is very specific.
The whole point of a teleport is that there is no actual normal movement. You aren't "entering" the space from an adjacent space; you're just suddenly there. I see no reason for PAM to apply any more than, say, Sentinel would.
Which makes sense. But it makes more sense imo, why you can leave the space without provoking an opportunity attack. Entering it, you have entered the range and are now staying there, so more time for the PAM to react imo.
Enter- to come or go into. Therefore to come or go into the range of the polearm master. Which triggers the rule of the feat.
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Is the polearm master not a specific rule vs the general rule on teleportation? Generally speaking, teleportation does not provoke an opportunity attack, but when specifically entering the range of a PAM it does. PAM gives a rare opportunity attack when something approaches you.
What about Misty Step being used to take you within the reach of a foe with polearm master? So movement towards a foe with Misty Step, not away.
"You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction." -PHB p.195
and...
"While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach." - PHB p.168
This would seem to me, to be a case of the general rule being no opportunity attack for the teleport, but the feat being a specific rule wins out, so there is an opportunity attack entering the reach. Not sure though, figured I would throw it out. PAM seems to be the fairly rare case of the opportunity attack being triggered by movement towards, rather than movement away.
Hmm... I'd rule that it doesn't provoke an OA from PAM, but I can see how it could (since it would definitely count as entering an area of effect for example). Most since OAs are generally not triggered by teleportation, and carrying that rule over.
That is the general rule with teleportation, I agree. I think the PAM feat's specific rule trumps it though. So if you are using Misty Step to get away from the polearm master, no opportunity attack. If you are entering his/her reach with Misty Step, then there is an opportunity attack. You are entering the range and staying there. The assumption of the section on opportunity attack is a creature going away from you. Polearm Master feat is something coming towards you, which is very specific.
And doubtful this event is going to happen very often. More of a test of the RAW. You be correct in the RAI, btw. I think the RAI is harder to definitively answer though. The rules can't forsee all eventualities.
You could argue that PAM only adds entering to the list of OA triggers (previously only leaving), and since it doesn't mention teleportation it doesn't change the general rule.
Either way, I don't think it is RAI, and since teleportation almost certainly takes a limited resource for each use, my ruling would be to not have the OA trigger.
I think that's a strong argument imo and one of the best arguments to the contrary.
There is no argument with Sentinel working vs Misty Step or other teleportation. Sentinel, by it's wording, only negates the Disengage action by other creatures.
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I think the answer is no but I want to be sure.
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Here's the relevant rule:
So no.
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Right quote, wrong hyperlink to find it though. Here, its in the opportunity attacks section not the movement section.
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Avoiding opportunity attacks is pretty much the entire point of Misty Step, honestly.
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That and escaping grapples.
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That and adding additional distance after a Move + dash.
And it helps prevent having to climb small distances.
And if you can see the unoccupied space through a keyhole in an otherwise locked door.
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And if you have a familiar you can poof into existence on the other side of said door, saving the need for squinting through a keyhole (assuming said keyhole even penetrates fully through the door; not all doors lock in both directions.
Or if you don’t have a Familiar, but you can create Homunculus too.
And it helps when the Barbarian can barely jump that chasm, so you know you can not.
Regardless of why or how one uses it though, getting out of grapples and not provoking OAs on the way is always nice.
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What about Misty Step being used to take you within the reach of a foe with polearm master? So movement towards a foe with Misty Step, not away.
Hmm... I'd rule that it doesn't provoke an OA from PAM, but I can see how it could (since it would definitely count as entering an area of effect for example). Most since OAs are generally not triggered by teleportation, and carrying that rule over.
That is the general rule with teleportation, I agree. I think the PAM feat's specific rule trumps it though. So if you are using Misty Step to get away from the polearm master, no opportunity attack. If you are entering his/her reach with Misty Step, then there is an opportunity attack. You are entering the range and staying there. The assumption of the section on opportunity attack is a creature going away from you. Polearm Master feat is something coming towards you, which is very specific.
And doubtful this event is going to happen very often. More of a test of the RAW. You be correct in the RAI, btw. I think the RAI is harder to definitively answer though. The rules can't forsee all eventualities.
You could argue that PAM only adds entering to the list of OA triggers (previously only leaving), and since it doesn't mention teleportation it doesn't change the general rule.
Either way, I don't think it is RAI, and since teleportation almost certainly takes a limited resource for each use, my ruling would be to not have the OA trigger.
The whole point of a teleport is that there is no actual normal movement. You aren't "entering" the space from an adjacent space; you're just suddenly there. I see no reason for PAM to apply any more than, say, Sentinel would.
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The attack of opportunity rules, in and of themselves, say that the movement has to be willing in order to provoke the attack. If you want to leave a threatened area, you may use Disengage. One of the parts of PMM removes their ability to Disengage, and allows you to attack people who are willing to move towards you get attacked. Sentinel makes it so they can't move if they get hit. The key word is "willing" in both cases. You have to move yourself.
If you take a Misty Step into the threatened area, and they have the ability to attack inside it, you get attacked. Misty Step allows you to choose your destination. If someone else uses a any means to force you into the threatened area, you don't get attacked.
At least, that's how I think it works. I am often incorrect, and at other times, I am flat out wrong. The difference between "incorrect" and "wrong" is that one is a mistake, the other means you have no idea what you are talking about. I am more frequently incorrect, but I am wrong some of the time.
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Teleportation never triggers Opportunity Attack, wether standard or PAM. It would take an exception and have to be clearly stated otherwise, similar to how Sentinel state it for Disengage.
Exemple "Creatures within your reach provoke opportunity attacks even if they teleport." or similar wording. Not sure any exist.
Looking at the wording in RAW, I think it is fair to say you can interpret it both ways without one being strictly wrong according to RAW. RAI is most likely that the opportunity attack is provoked when a creature tries to move from a bordering square outside your reach to a bordering square inside your reach (why else would this be a specific benefit tied to weapons with long reach?).
However, I have another take on a RAW/RAI interpretation that might help explain why it doesn't provoke an opportunity attack to teleport within reach of a character with the Polearm Master feat. My interpretation centers around the following part of the rules for Opportunity Attacks:
Below are two different scenarios:
1. A character (C1) uses Misty Step to teleport within 5 feet of a character with the Polearm Master feat (C2).
In this scenario C2 sees C1 only when he is within 5 feet. Mechanically C1 entered C2's reach when he was 5 foot from him.
2. C1 uses Invisibility to move within 5 foot of C2, where C1 drops the spell and becomes visible.
In this scenario C2 likewise sees C1 only when he is within 5 feet. However, mechanically C1 entered C2's reach when he was 10 foot from him.
The difference between scenario 1 and 2 is purely one of game mechanics, and you'd have a hard time narratively explaining why they shouldn't be ruled the same way in the game. If anything, according to RAW, C2 might have heard or otherwise perceived the invisible C1 moving closer in scenario 2, whereas there would be no such heads-up in scenario 1. That being the case, I would personally find it odd to interpret C1 in scenario 1 (invisible) to be better protected against opportunity attacks than C1 in scenario 2 (teleport).
Opportunity Attacks, Polearm Master, and Sentinel:
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, so while you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach, and even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach then the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn, and when a creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack against a target other than you, that occurs right before the creature leaves your reach (and that target doesn't have this feat), you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature, You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction. For example, you don't provoke an opportunity attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe's reach or if gravity causes you to fall past an enemy.
The Misty Step spell says that you are briefly surrounded by silvery mist, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
So as near as I can figure, the Misty Step spell does not provoke an Attack of Opportunity.
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Which makes sense. But it makes more sense imo, why you can leave the space without provoking an opportunity attack. Entering it, you have entered the range and are now staying there, so more time for the PAM to react imo.
I think that's a strong argument imo and one of the best arguments to the contrary.
There is no argument with Sentinel working vs Misty Step or other teleportation. Sentinel, by it's wording, only negates the Disengage action by other creatures.