Standing from prone, no OA?

[King-Panda]

A player brought to my attention that standing from prone no longer draws an OA. Sure enough, after looking it up in the PH, page 290, it only states movement out of a threatened square, ranged attacks, and area attacks draw OAs. Is this for simplicity? Balance? Am I wrong? Any ideas?

[Mengu]

It's probably to prevent knock down abuse and potential future infinite loops. There are a lot of effects that knock you down now. Having to give up a move action probably seems like a hefty enough penalty for being knocked down.

[King-Panda]

Good point. Didn't consider sticky defenders and their advantages with prone-ness.

[Lord Sessadore]

Yeah, I think their intent was to make prone less of a lock-down condition. It's easy to get back up, provided you want to spend the move action, instead of constantly getting pounded back into the ground by monsters or NPCs with Improved-Trip-like abilities.