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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 233777" data-attributes="member: 996">Re: So even though...The 'additional' attack is, however, the exact same attack as the original.  You can't, for isntance, cleave through one enemy in order to disarm the next.  Though I think you /should/ be able to cleave when you drop someone with an AoO, you should only cleave into another enemy who is also provoking an AoO - otherwise, the second enemy, who hasn't dropped his gaurd like the one you dropped, will be able to avoid (dodge/parry/whatever) the attack.  Unlike his deceased friend, he's ready for it.In other words, you get the additional attack, you just may not have anyone to use it on - always an issue with Cleave....However, I find it much more useful to think of Cleave, not as giving you and additional attack, but as retroactively making the attack which dropped the foe a freebie...  Great Cleaving isn't like nabbing a video game powerup - your character doesn't suddenly accelerate or sprout extra swords or anything.  <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=";)" /></blockquote>