Redcaps/Ranged OP attack

[sergeant.bus]

I am in the Putrid Bog and Gale was brought down by a redcap before it retreated. Then Shadowheart then helped Gale (+1hp) Gale was not in melee range(threatened). But when I had him retreat the system says he triggered an op attack and promptly went back down. Is this a bug? What happened.

[Ironwu]

Who knows. Would need to see a video of this to have any idea.

That being said, you might want to respec your party into the 'Alert' feat for all four of them.

I just did that Redcap fight earlier today. All four of my party went first and were not surprised. So they shot the two closest ones dead, then retreated 40ft back. Gale put down a grease patch and the team just picked them off as they stumbled into it.

The only Redcap that hit anyone was a guy up on a hillock. After the rest were down, he was easy to pick off.

In my opinion, the 'Alert' feat at Lvl 4 is far more valuable than any other feat that can be taken. YMMV

[jonnin]

Some weapons have longer range than others. So 'melee' range and 'threatened' range may not exactly overlap on some of the largest ones. If you were sort of close to him but not in dagger range, it could happen. ?? But as said, we can't see what happened and you can't really describe it well enough to make up for that. If you looked at the combat log it would say, in detail if you mouse over the various bits (what was rolled, who attacked who, its all there).

some enemy have cheese too. These have, for example, a weapon you can't even wield, for no reason other than DM is cheating and doesn't want you to use them (same as the doctors weapons later on).

[Metallicus]

You should kill the Redcaps in one round before they get to attack. This always works for me. Why are they even getting to hit your party in the first place?