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Can you take an AoO while refocusing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Virago" data-source="post: 100261" data-attributes="member: 2045"><p><strong>Thoughts?</strong></p><p></p><p>Forget Refocus ever existed, and let people Delay into the next round at the highest initiative they please. Go cyclic!</p><p></p><p>If you treat a Refocus like a Delay in this way, yes they get an AoO, but you haven't <em>really</em> taken your turn yet, so your AoOs haven't refreshed, and won't again until you go next round.</p><p></p><p>Example:</p><p>Init 19: Monster M draws AoO from our hero.</p><p>Init 15: Hero goes, starts delaying.</p><p>Init 12: Monster N draws AoO from our hero.</p><p>Init 25 (next round): Character stops delaying and takes action. Character tries to grapple Monster Q, who in turn tries to disarm--thus drawing an AoO from the character.</p><p></p><p>The character cannot take both AoOs against M and N (since Delaying itself is not an action and thus does not refresh AoOs), but can always take the AoO against Q.</p><p></p><p>If you follow the normal rules for Refocus, I imagine the character can take all three AoOs. It gets a little more weird if monster Q is the same monster as M or N, or both . . .</p><p></p><p>Not that you asked for this information of course <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=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virago, post: 100261, member: 2045"] [b]Thoughts?[/b] Forget Refocus ever existed, and let people Delay into the next round at the highest initiative they please. Go cyclic! If you treat a Refocus like a Delay in this way, yes they get an AoO, but you haven't [i]really[/i] taken your turn yet, so your AoOs haven't refreshed, and won't again until you go next round. Example: Init 19: Monster M draws AoO from our hero. Init 15: Hero goes, starts delaying. Init 12: Monster N draws AoO from our hero. Init 25 (next round): Character stops delaying and takes action. Character tries to grapple Monster Q, who in turn tries to disarm--thus drawing an AoO from the character. The character cannot take both AoOs against M and N (since Delaying itself is not an action and thus does not refresh AoOs), but can always take the AoO against Q. If you follow the normal rules for Refocus, I imagine the character can take all three AoOs. It gets a little more weird if monster Q is the same monster as M or N, or both . . . Not that you asked for this information of course ;) [/QUOTE]
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