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Wait a minute... are you saying that we actually agree now? If so, my mind is blown...

Great catch that the damage rules actually say "after a succesful attack", and therefore if counterattacks weren't attacks, they could never do damage. I had not thought to look there.



Super excellent! And enjoyable too.

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Well, not to complicate matters, but Counterattack does say “...if you roll more net successes than the attacker, resolve those net successes as if you had made a successful attack...”

So even if Counterattack isn’t in itself an attack, you are still resolving the dice as if it were, so it could still damage. The question is: Is that enough to call the whole thing an attack? How much of the reaction as to be considered “as if” it were an attack to trigger abilities like Rebuff?

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True, but opportunity attack is a reaction that doesn't have that wording - because it actually just makes an attack, as I see it. No reason to say that it counts as an attack when it is literally making an attack. The only difference between a standard attack and an opportunity attack is that the opportunity attack is a reaction and not an action, and therefore you never declare an attack (action), you declare an opportunity attack (reaction)...

How I see it.

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