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03/23/2010, 15:59

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leap climb and charge

i'm pretty sure you cant leap climb during the movement for charge but a decent number of characters have both because of special powers and a clear answer about this would be really helpfull to our playgroup

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03/23/2010, 16:04

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http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2010/01...bility-combos/

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Let’s look at some powers that activate off of other kinds of actions to see how all of this plays out. We’ll start with the main candidate for why a compatibility chart can never be perfect – Leap/Climb. This power has 2 components to it:

(1) When you give this character a move action, it automatically breaks away and ignores the effects of characters, hindering terrain, elevated terrain, and outdoor blocking terrain on movement (but it can’t end its movement on blocking terrain). (2) When you give this character a close combat action, it can target a character regardless of the target’s elevation.

The power has 2 sentences (that I’ve numbered) giving the character 2 different capabilities. The first only activates during a move action while the other only activates during a close combat action. So when I’m asked “Can I use Leap/Climb with Charge?”, the answer is “Yes and No”.

THE NO PART: The movement part of Charge is not a move action. It’s a power action that instructs you to move, but it is not a move action. If a character has Leap/Climb and uses Charge, it would not be allowed to ignore terrain because of the Leap/Climb power. Compare this to the Flight ability which begins:

This character ignores the effects of hindering terrain on movement…

A flier using Charge would be able to ignore terrain, because Flight does not specify that it only activates during move actions. But the first part of Leap/Climb is specific – it only activates during a move action.

THE YES PART: After the character has moved with Charge, it gets a close combat action as a free action. As discussed above, that can be used to activate any power requiring a close combat action. The second part of Leap/Climb – allowing the character to target a character on a different elevation – activates when the character is making a close combat action. So this part would be usable during a Charge.

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