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Sep 29, 2012 -- 10:38AM, mellored wrote:

New specialty. Threaten: When you melee attack someone roll combat dice. If that enemy attacks an ally on it's next turn, you can spend a reaction to deal twice the amount rolled.

Well i would call this Riposte or something like that, and have it deal just the dice taken from the CS pool as damage, or possiblydo weapon damage with the dice rolled as a penalty to the attack, that might be a little overpowered though.

Sep 30, 2012 -- 9:29AM, Drycanth wrote:

now you want to make the DM metagame to know you have that ability in order to make him have his creatures not attack any one but the marking PC? OR is this just a way to gain extra damage?

Last I checked, I don't need to metagame to know someone is interfering with my attack narratively.

Having read the whole thread, I must say I'm disappointed with the bickering, but impressed with all the analysis and brainstorming being done in between.
I've yet to try Next, but from reading it and people's reflections on it, I'm very positive, especially with the fighter. I'm glad to once again see it able to deal heavy damage should the player choose such a path, and the defensive abilities look strong as well, with room for more, of course.

I agree with the opposition of the 4E mark, my reason being mostly book keeping. Reactive punishment or mitigation or hindrance seems better to me.
However, as has been pointed out, I don't think this should cost the reaction as the maneuver options already cost CS die, and the fighter don't really get that many! He has only one on levels 1 through 4, with advancement from 6-10 being unknown so far. Even a defensive fighter with the Defender feat would probably just use the CS die on his turn (Deadly Strike, Knock Down what do I know) and use the reaction cause disadvantage, should the need arise.

My opinion: An ability that is "free", like that granted by Defender (remember 5E feats grant options, not direct power), should cost the Reaction, but not maneuvers that already cost CS. Not only do held maneuvers have a cost, but they also have a risk in that they might not find use and are simply wasted. Still, I haven't played it yet, so I don't know how easy CS is to utilize off-turn.

I want to be able to throw or launch a weapon against an enemy to have it interfere with an enemies attack against my ally. In effect a ranged protect.

Basically bounded accuracy means some things you might have done with a mark in 4e need to be handled a different way.