You corral your opponents like a herd of lost cattle, controlling their movements to ensure their actions are advantageous to you. Keeping them from moving too far from their current position allows you to close the gap, and whenever they try to escape you, you punish them for leaving an opening.
- Racial Requirement: Any Race
- Transformation Type: Awakening
- Awakening Type: Lesser
- Awakening Origin: Mind
- Prerequisite(s): Exploit Expert
- Maximum No of Stacks: 1
- Tier of Power Requirement. 1+
| AG | FO | TE | SC | IN | MA | PE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | +1 | – | – | +1 | +1 | – |
Forcing an Opening: You manipulate your foes’ movements, ensuring they react in accordance with your plans. When they inevitably fall into your trap, you strike.
(1)-[Triggered/Start of Combat Round, Ruling]: Target an Opponent. That Opponent becomes ‘Locked’ until the end of the Combat Round.
(2)-[Passive]: Any Maneuver made by a Locked Opponent triggers your Exploit Maneuver if that Opponent is within your Melee Range.
(3)-[Passive]: If a Locked Opponent would initiate movement through their own effects or Maneuvers while within your Melee Range, halve the amount of Squares they can move through that effect or Maneuver.
(4)-[Triggered]: If a Locked Opponent triggers your Exploit Maneuver, and you choose not to use the Exploit Maneuver in response to the triggering Maneuver, regain 2(bT) Ki Points.
(5)-[Triggered, 1/Encounter]: If you regain Ki Points through the fourth effect of Forcing an Opening, you may use the Power Up or Transformation Maneuver as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver.
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