"No Range" Limitation and Stretching

[MikeyMitchell]

The "No Range" Limitation states, "The character can only use the power at HTH Combat range." (5ER p. 302) That creates an interesting question: What about a character who has Stretching?

On the one hand, the Stretching power indicates "...the character is considered to be in HTH Combat." (5ER p. 220) That would seem to indicate that the character with Stretching can use that power to allow a No Range attack out to the limits of his Stretching. However, the definition of HTH Combat Range indicates "...characters standing in the same or adjacent hexes..." (5ER 383)

If you take the strict textual definitions, it would seem to indicate that a character with Stretching cannot use a No Range attack on a target beyond the adjacent hex. However, that's counterintuitive, given that he can attack targets out to his Stretching range with normal HTH combat. What's the right answer?

[Steve Long]

The rules for Stretching are a specific exception to the HTH Combat "range" rules. For most characters, HTH Combat range is their hex or adjacent hexes. But characters with Stretching can use HTH attacks and No Range attacks out to the reach of their Stretching, unless the GM rules otherwise based on special effects, common sense, dramatic sense, game balance, or the like.