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Message: <blockquote data-quote="krupintupple" data-source="post: 4523596" data-attributes="member: 58300">in a campaign a friend's running, he's come up against a bit of a problem and it got me thinking:he made a totemist from the magic of incarnum go against his PCs and he said they said one of the tactics that he used seemed illegal, or at least should've provoked an attack of opportunity. the totemist is apparently like a more melee-based druid and can sorta shapeshift into stuff (he told me); there's a power that lets you basically land on someone and get 4 attacks in, like a pounce i take it. however, his players said that while charging into combat with that would be acceptable, it wouldn't standing in melee, because you couldn't get the required movement without provoking an AoO (since unlike pounce, you jump on people, not charge them)i'm kind of at a loss as what advice to give him. they have a point, but i suppose my question is, does the above action sound like it provokes an AoO? i'm thinking that it'd be a yes for jumping *on* someone melee, but not for jumping *into* melee. my reasoning being that it sounds like this was meant to be like a pounce-type power and pouncing on someone from beside them seems kinda dumb, but then again, it's a fantasy game <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />what's your thoughts, enworld?</blockquote>

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