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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3370503" data-attributes="member: 1465">AoOs are introduced with the explanation that they have something to do with the target dropping his defenses, since they are provoked by the target. Although maybe there are some special abilities in various book that allows the attacker to "force" the target to provoke an AoO, normally AoOs can only be provoked.In fact, the reason why AoOs were added to rules in the first place was to limit certain actions (casting spells from adjacent, using bows in melee, running away, moving too much around the enemies, performing a special attack like sunder/trip/disarm) without outright banning them from the game, which would have felt arbitrary.The designers gave characters a choice: do the restricted action but take an AoO on yourself, or work to circumvent the restriction.Cleave is perhaps the only example in the core rules which breaks the idea that characters are responsible for the AoOs they get.This is why many gamers including me hate it.</blockquote>