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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 1340836" data-attributes="member: 10131">Sure, you can trip them, because the rule doesn't specify that you can't trip someone who is already prone... but the trip has no effect.Instead of the potion example, think of the movement effects of a trip attack against a moving opponent.If someone is inside your threat radius, and moves out, he provokes an AoO from you.  You use that AoO as a trip attempt, succeed, and he falls.So which square does he fall in?  The square inside your threat radius, or the square he was trying to get to?The answer, of course, is the square inside your threat radius.  Thus, your attack happens before he finishes his move.  Thus, if you trip someone who is trying to stand, you trip them "before" they stand.  However, they still count as prone.SO.  If you trip someone who is already prone... you simply make them prone... still.  They haven't stood up yet.  Your trip basically has no effect whatsoever on them, because before your attack they were prone, and after your attack they are still prone.  After you resolve the "trip", they can stand up normally.And "disarming" someone drinking a potion doesn't "interrupt" the action.  It simply makes the action impossible since I no longer have the potion in my hand.</blockquote>