I am building a character and deciding between some options and I noticed this particular combo could be pretty good.
My biggest point of confusion is that the Brace maneuver doesn't say that it is an attack of opportunity "When a creature you can see moves into the reach you have with the melee weapon you’re wielding, you can use your reaction to expend one superiority die and make one attack against the creature, using that weapon." This description is almost identical to the attack of opportunity description.
If the sentinel feat allows you to reduce a creatures speed to 0 after hitting them and the brace maneuver allows you to make an attack against a creature when they enter your range. So, if someone had a weapon with reach then could they prevent enemies from getting into their space almost entirely?
The sentinel feat is only triggered when an opportunity attack occurs, which is when a creature moves OUT of your reach.
Brace only triggers when a creatures moves INTO your reach.
Using either of them will use your reaction.
A weapon with reach can hit a creature up to that distance. A weapon with a range of 10 ft can still attack at a range of 5 ft, so no opportunity attack occurs when it closes from 10 ft to 5 ft.
Sounds like Brace was likely worded that way to avoid the OP nature of Sentinel + Polearm Master. It's silly that at the cost of two feats (so fourth level for VHuman) you can both attack AND freeze any creature that walks into your melee range, and now they're avoiding that combo being allowed at first level with only a Fighting Style (Superior Technique) and a feat (via VHuman).
I made this reply asking a question that was dumb, and have since edited it to say that I asked it having misread your post. Now I dont know how to delete this.
My biggest point of confusion is that the Brace maneuver doesn't say that it is an attack of opportunity "When a creature you can see moves into the reach you have with the melee weapon you’re wielding, you can use your reaction to expend one superiority die and make one attack against the creature, using that weapon." This description is almost identical to the attack of opportunity description.
If the sentinel feat allows you to reduce a creatures speed to 0 after hitting them and the brace maneuver allows you to make an attack against a creature when they enter your range. So, if someone had a weapon with reach then could they prevent enemies from getting into their space almost entirely?
Sentinel's benefit you're referring to only works on Opportunity Attack. Brace is not an Opportunity Attack, but a melee attack as a reaction, similar to Sentinel's 3rd benefit, and therefore speed doesn't become 0 on either of these reaction attacks.
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I am building a character and deciding between some options and I noticed this particular combo could be pretty good.
My biggest point of confusion is that the Brace maneuver doesn't say that it is an attack of opportunity "When a creature you can see moves into the reach you have with the melee weapon you’re wielding, you can use your reaction to expend one superiority die and make one attack against the creature, using that weapon." This description is almost identical to the attack of opportunity description.
If the sentinel feat allows you to reduce a creatures speed to 0 after hitting them and the brace maneuver allows you to make an attack against a creature when they enter your range. So, if someone had a weapon with reach then could they prevent enemies from getting into their space almost entirely?
The sentinel feat is only triggered when an opportunity attack occurs, which is when a creature moves OUT of your reach.
Brace only triggers when a creatures moves INTO your reach.
Using either of them will use your reaction.
A weapon with reach can hit a creature up to that distance. A weapon with a range of 10 ft can still attack at a range of 5 ft, so no opportunity attack occurs when it closes from 10 ft to 5 ft.
Brace is not an attack of opportunity therefore it won't work with the speed stopping part of Sentinel.
If you want to stop someone moving into your range you would need the Polearm Master Feat and Sentinel.
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Sounds like Brace was likely worded that way to avoid the OP nature of Sentinel + Polearm Master. It's silly that at the cost of two feats (so fourth level for VHuman) you can both attack AND freeze any creature that walks into your melee range, and now they're avoiding that combo being allowed at first level with only a Fighting Style (Superior Technique) and a feat (via VHuman).
I made this reply asking a question that was dumb, and have since edited it to say that I asked it having misread your post. Now I dont know how to delete this.
Whoops.
Sentinel's benefit you're referring to only works on Opportunity Attack. Brace is not an Opportunity Attack, but a melee attack as a reaction, similar to Sentinel's 3rd benefit, and therefore speed doesn't become 0 on either of these reaction attacks.