An Attack of Opportunity is worth...?

[Scurvy_Platypus]

I'm currently running Everstone, which is a BESMd20 based game. BESMd20 does away with AoO, which really isn't a problem for me. The concept is ok I guess, but in practise I find AoO to be too fiddly for my tastes, and combat seems to be a very "static" affair, with people standing in one place and not moving.

However, there are a number of feats (Improved this or that) in which (at least part) of the specific benefit it does is to negate AoO.

I'm thinking that what I'd like to do instead is convert the feat so it provides a bonus to attempting the action. That way if someone happens to like the feat for some reason (it matches their character concept or whatever), they can still take it and have it be mechanically useful, without going down the AoO road.

So what kind of bonus is an AoO worth? +4?

Game is going to be capped at level 8 if that's any consideration.

 

[Quartz]

Specifically with Improved Feint, how about making it so you can feint and attack in the same turn (as a full-round action)?

 

[Scurvy_Platypus]

Errrr...

I guess that's workable except... ummm... Everstone doesn't break stuff up into Actions like that either. Looking at the d20 SRD Hypertext, it looks like there's 6 different Action Types. Everstone has... 2. "Free Action" and everything else.

Plus it's really only a partial solution. There's other actions (like Sunder) which provoke AoO. Going with a flat bonus just makes things easier (I'm a lazy GM) all around, and means it's a consistent answer too.

 

[Nifft]

+1 on the initial attack roll.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Switchblade]

Specifically with Improved Feint, how about making it so you can feint and attack in the same turn (as a full-round action)?

Correct me if I'm being dumb (it happens sometime) but doesn't imp feint do that anyway? Strictly speaking it turns feint into a move equivilent then attack as a standard. Feinting doesn't provoke with or without the feat.

 

[Nifft]

Correct me if I'm being dumb (it happens sometime) but doesn't imp feint do that anyway? Strictly speaking it turns feint into a move equivilent then attack as a standard. Feinting doesn't provoke with or without the feat.

You are 100% correct.

Cheers, -- N