Jake of Tales, I really wish you were continuing this game, because it's been quite fun, but I understand your desire to travel and see some of the most beautiful cities in the world at the beginning of Spring. Don't forget to see some countryside too, Spring is always the best time to travel.
About charge attacks
On the last pages some questions were raised about Smoothy's charge. A charge is not a special attack that by itself provokes an AoO - in this regard it's the same as moving to a creature and attacking. However if you move out of a threatened square, which a creature without reach is required to do in order to attack something with more than 5' reach, then you provoke an AoO.
Readying against a charge is simply a ready action, and has nothing to do with the attack provoking or not provoking an AoO. To ready is a standard action, and usually this is worded thus, "I'm going to ready to attack that creature when it gets close enough." With weapons like a spear that get a bonus to be set against a charge, "when it gets close enough" is usually all that's required to trigger the attack, and so you'd get the bonus against someone charging even if you didn't say, "I attack if they charge." Readying changes your initiative.
