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My Battlemaster have Attack of Opportunity, Riposte, and Duelist abillities.
But can they correctly work at the same time or I should choose only one of them?

I can make all these circles visually look active
But it is seems to be they don't work at the same time.

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Riposte is not supposed to work with opportunity attacks anyway. You are not being attacked when an enemy gets out of your way. But I am confused by your 'at the same time' though. Do you mean concurrently? If it's what you mean, then it might be a bug. They are supposed to be active all at once if you have activated them.

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Riposte is used when someone attacks you and misses.

Attack of Opportunity is used/triggered when someone you were threatening moves out of range.

So no the won't trigger at the same time. If they are it may simply look that way as someone has attacked you then moved out of your range.

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Looks like I said it wrong.
I mean can all of these modes be turning on at the same time
If the enemy attacks me in melee then Duelist grants me +2AC
If it misses, I can Reposte
But if he wants to move out of me in ordrer to attack someone else then an Attack of Opportunity will be triggered.

I have some bugs trying to active them. Sometimes icons dissappeared.

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Riposte, Duelist, and Attacks of Opportunity all consume a hidden third combat resource - your Reaction. Like your Action, you only get one per turn, so even while all are toggled on your character can only make one Attack of Opportunity, Riposte, or use their Duelist feature (prioritizing the first one to trigger).

Some examples:
An enemy moves away from your character, thereby triggering your Attack of Opportunity. Your character consumes their reaction to swing at them! Now, until it is their turn again, your character cannot make another Attack of Opportunity, nor use Duelist or Riposte.
Next turn, an enemy approaches and swings at you. Your character uses their Duelist feature to raise their AC by two, causing the attack to miss. Their reaction is now consumed, preventing them from using Riposte.

For this reason, I suggest activating Riposte or Duelist, not both. With both active, Riposte will never trigger, because Duelist will always consume your Reaction first.

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Yes, I just remembered about reaction. Thanks fishworshipper. You only have one per turn. So it's gonna be either Riposte or Opportunity attack. You can't have both in the same turn.

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Originally Posted by Nyanko
Yes, I just remembered about reaction. Thanks fishworshipper. You only have one per turn. So it's gonna be either Riposte or Opportunity attack. You can't have both in the same turn.

You can leave both of those active, if you want. They have different triggers, so one doesn’t really invalidate the other.

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Originally Posted by fishworshipper

For this reason, I suggest activating Riposte or Duelist, not both. With both active, Riposte will never trigger, because Duelist will always consume your Reaction first.

I tested more carefully and now I can say that in the game you can activate both the Duelist and the Riposte and you get +2AC first than if enemy misses you can Riposte.
The reason why it did not work for me before is that there's no information that Duelist only work if you are wielding a Finess weapon (I should have guessed seeing the Duelist word )))

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