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<blockquote data-quote="greywulf" data-source="post: 3560511" data-attributes="member: 4285">This annoys me no end. Here’s how most threads which get sucked into the Big AoO debate tend to develop:A: We don’t use AoO in our games. I understand them, but choose not to use them.B: Why don’t you understand AoO? They’re easy to understand and I’m clearly posting this to show how much clever I am than you. Even though I didn’t read your original post properly.A: No. We understand AoO. We don’t use them because they break the flow of combat, have strange exceptions to their implementation and encourage meta-gaming thinking. And they do more to disolve the game into rules arguments than anything else in the game. So, we don’t use them.C: You clearly don’t understand them. Ergo, I’m also cleverer than you too.A: …sigh…For the record: we don’t use the AoO “rules” at all. We just use common sense. If you’re going to do something right in front of a hobgoblin that lets your guard down, he’s going to get a free whack at you. That doesn’t need a diagram, table or endless rules debate to figure out. AoO, is seems, does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="greywulf, post: 3560511, member: 4285"] This annoys me no end. Here’s how most threads which get sucked into the Big AoO debate tend to develop: A: We don’t use AoO in our games. I understand them, but choose not to use them. B: Why don’t you understand AoO? They’re easy to understand and I’m clearly posting this to show how much clever I am than you. Even though I didn’t read your original post properly. A: No. We understand AoO. We don’t use them because they break the flow of combat, have strange exceptions to their implementation and encourage meta-gaming thinking. And they do more to disolve the game into rules arguments than anything else in the game. So, we don’t use them. C: You clearly don’t understand them. Ergo, I’m also cleverer than you too. A: …sigh… For the record: we don’t use the AoO “rules” at all. We just use common sense. If you’re going to do something right in front of a hobgoblin that lets your guard down, he’s going to get a free whack at you. That doesn’t need a diagram, table or endless rules debate to figure out. AoO, is seems, does. [/QUOTE]

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