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Coming Sunday a party member and myself will be facing off against a wizard/warlock and some cultists.

The session last week ended on the Paladin initiating combat by jumping towards the warlock by surprise. (something I would've preferred to avoid before diplomacy had occurred but alas)

Now I was wondering, if I were to use the surprise to move towards the warlock without triggering Opportunity Attacks from the cultists, and I were to place myself in such a way that the Warlock was in between myself and the Paladin.

Upon using Thunderwave and the Warlock failing his saving throw (thus being knocked back), would our Paladin get an Opportunity Attack from the Warlock being knocked into his range? Or is this something that is entirely up to the DM?

I am an Evoker wizard so with Sculpt Spell I can protect the Paladin from my evocation spells.

Bwash
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    Does the paladin have the Polearm Master feat? Getting closer to someone does not generally provoke an AoO. – Szega Mar 20 '18 at 08:57
  • He does not, pretty sure he went with the ability score increase – Bwash Mar 20 '18 at 10:00
  • I appreciate that people take the time to help people with grammar and spelling. But changing every mention of 'attack of opportunity' to 'opportunity attack' for the sake of "proper terminology" was uncalled for. 'Attack of opportunity' is just as much the proper term as 'opportunity attack – Bwash Mar 20 '18 at 10:19
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    @Bwash that is the proper term in 5e. I see nothing wrong with that. It is always better to use the right terms. – Rubiksmoose Mar 20 '18 at 10:55
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    Also, there are no surprise rounds in 5e. Only surprised creatures that can't act in the first round of combat. – Rubiksmoose Mar 20 '18 at 11:50
  • regardless of terminology anyone familiar with D&D would know what I was talking about when I use the term "Attack of Opportunity"

    • it's not like I used completely unrelated words. 2. That's true, but our Paladin jumped in to all the cultist's surprise, while 5e might not technically have a surprise round, all of the enemies being surprised is in essence the same thing

    – Bwash Mar 20 '18 at 13:54
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    @Bwash: I'm not trying to pick on you, but using correct terminology is important, not only for getting a good answer to your question, but also for ensuring that it is not confusing for people regardless of their D&D expertise. There is nothing wrong with having your post edited for reasons like this. – Rubiksmoose Mar 20 '18 at 17:02
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    The [Help] article “Why can people edit my posts? How does editing work?” is a handy reference that's relevant to the comment thread, which may answer some questions about the site. – SevenSidedDie Mar 21 '18 at 02:31
  • Thanks SevenSidedDie, but it's not the fact that people can edit my posts that bothers me, it's when they edit it when there was nothing wrong with the original post that bothers me – Bwash Mar 21 '18 at 14:19
  • Also, there is a difference between a surprise round and enemies being surprised. If they are surprised, but roll a higher initiative than you, they would be able to use their reactions on your turn. – KingdomGnark May 04 '18 at 16:25