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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2412321" data-attributes="member: 1656">I can't find that one, but I can find this one in the 3.5 Main FAQ, p33:Suppose a fighter and an archer go at the sameinitiative. The archer is not in an adjacent square but onlyone square over. The fighter is not using a reach weapon.Assuming the archer plans to use a full attack action (anddoesn’t use a 5-foot step), and since they have the sameinitiative, could the fighter move his 5-foot step (toward thearcher) as the archer is firing and get an attack ofopportunity?The question is moot, because two characters never havethe same initiative. If two characters tie with their initiativerolls, you must break the tie before starting the combat (seeInitiative in Chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook).The fighter could use the ready or delay special initiativeactions to act at about the same time as the archer. In the caseof the ready action, the fighter could ready an attack against thearcher when the archer shoots. When the archer shoots, thereadied action is triggered. The fighter acts before the archershoots (readied actions are resolved prior to the actions thattrigger them, see the ready description in Chapter 8 of thePlayer’s Handbook). Assuming that the fighter has notpreviously moved this round, he could make a 5-foot step andthen attack the archer. Since the fighter now threatens thearcher, the fighter can make an attack of opportunity against thearcher when the archer fires, provided the archer does not use a5-foot step to get out of reach first.If the fighter was delaying, the action would be resolved inthe same way, provided the fighter chose to act before thearcher. If the delaying fighter acts after the archer, the fighterwon’t get any attack of opportunity against the archer (this turn,at least).This one explicitly allows a readied step-and-attack triggered and an AoO provoked by the same action - in fact, the very action (shooting an arrow) discussed in this thread.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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