Recent content by Gadsden

In my opinion, the -4 penalty is an indication of a willingness to fight more recklessly and therefore find more opportunities to strike. Lowering your guard to goad someone into attacking you is more of a bluffing maneuver and this feat is not something I see a finesse fighter taking. This is...

I don't want to infringe on any copyrights, so I will just paraphrase. The fighter takes a -4 penalty to AC and receives the ability to make an AoO against any creature that hits him with a melee attack or melee touch attack. The AoO only applies against foes within the fighter's threatened...

The chain does not occupy any square but the square the wielder occupies. The chain cannot provoke Attack of Opportunity. I have never heard of anyone having a miniture to depict the spiked chain their character wields. We are not dealing with real-world physics but game mechanics. The chain...

OK - that is all well and good and something I would probably allow with a Readied Action. But, the dispute revolves not around if the chain can be attacked but whether the attacker with the spike chain would provoke an AoO from his target standing 10 feet away. Being that the Karmic Strike...

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Could you elaborate on that more... How would an Attack Action work against someone outside of the fighter's threatened area? The chain might have a 10 foot range, but it's only actually "in" the square the foe is in.

Even when the text of the Karmic Strike feat explicity states that you must threaten the creature to get the AoO? Weapons, limbs, or other sundry body parts do not provoke AoO - only creatures do. And I am aware of the FAQ question to which you are referring regarding delivering a touch spell...

A question regarding the following example: Fighter 1 is a human wielding a great sword, giving him the typical 5' reach. He has the Karmic Strike feat active and declared against Fighter 2. Fighter 2 is a human wielding a spiked chain, giving him the typical 5' or 10' reach, at his option...