I agree 4e OAs work great. For the longest time The diagram on pg 290 confused me into thinking the bugbear could do 2 OA against the player as he passed by. It says he provokes an attack from bugbear when leaving A AND from bugbear & hydra (with reach) when leaving B. But the bugbear only gets an OA once per combatants turn. If they meant these were two separate turns then the fighter could have just shifted 1. The example should have at least been two separate sentences. It also doesn’t help that the diagram is the player provoking monster OAs while the text box below it is worded as a player making the OAs.
Yes. They tried to cram a lot of information into that image.
The diagram also shows the player starting out in a square adjacent to the Hydra AND threatened by the Bugbear. It makes no reference to the fact that when they player moves INTO square B, it would also provoke an OA from the Bugbear.
I agree 4e OAs work great. For the longest time The diagram on pg 290 confused me into thinking the bugbear could do 2 OA against the player as he passed by. It says he provokes an attack from bugbear when leaving A AND from bugbear & hydra (with reach) when leaving B. But the bugbear only gets an OA once per combatants turn. If they meant these were two separate turns then the fighter could have just shifted 1. The example should have at least been two separate sentences. It also doesn’t help that the diagram is the player provoking monster OAs while the text box below it is worded as a player making the OAs.
Yes. They tried to cram a lot of information into that image.
The diagram also shows the player starting out in a square adjacent to the Hydra AND threatened by the Bugbear. It makes no reference to the fact that when they player moves INTO square B, it would also provoke an OA from the Bugbear.