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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 5044552" data-attributes="member: 5889">The combat tables are full of actions that do and do not provoke AOOs. Standing up does not, but picking up a weapon does...casting does, but X does not etc. One thing I think 4e did a really good job with is it made the actions that cause AOOs small and standard. Everyone can quickly learn what provokes an AOO. To this day I still have to look at the 3e tables to determine if certain actions provoke AOOs.I'm curious what your experience has been with monsters using combat reactions. I was thinking about it from a player's point of view, but when you include monsters it gets more interesting. For example, if a high level dragon can simply use the block or dodge reaction everytime a fighter swings at him...doesn't that basically shut down the fighter?One question I also wanted to ask and forgot to ask it before the review. With action points and spell recall, one thing I'm confused about. If spells are no longer "assigned" to a slot, then when a spellcaster gets spell slots back (based on rote vs ritual for example) how do you determine which slots they get back?Do I have to keep track of every spell I cast so I know which slots to recover?</blockquote>