Climbing and Attacks of Opportunity

[Dendread]

Okay, quick question. I've got a hall. I've got a 5 ft. tall barricade. I've got nasty undead manning this barricade. Say one of my PCs wants to run down the hall and climb up this barricade. If their is a creature on the other side of the barricade that threatens the area the PC will be climbing through, does it get an attack of opportunity? Or does the PC, climbing as a move action, get through with no problem?

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Cover and Attacks of Opportunity: You can’t execute an attack of opportunity against an opponent with cover relative to you.

If the undead are behind the barricade and the barricade offers some sort of cover to the character climbing it, then, no, there won't be any AoO's.

AR

 

[AeroDm]

The question then arises what happens when the player gets to the top of the barricade and starts coming down. Assumedly the barricade has no effective width (as in the player cannot stand upon it) so at some point he either has to jump down, moving through threatened squares, or climb down which would provoke.

Not sure on definitive game rulings, but I'd just tell them it provokes, let them do what they need to do, and move on with it. Going from a non-literal ruling, I cannot envision how anyone could climb up and over a wall without opening themself to an attack from someone next to them.

 

[thalmin]

Well, since the wall is 5ft tall, it would only be a 5ft diag step to jump down into a square. I would rule a successful jump check to land upright and fighting with no AoO, failed check allow AoO, badly failed check fall prone. This is assuming a clear square to jump into next to the wall. If not, then there would obviously be movement through squares.

 

[Darklone]

Hmm, I will have a 5ft barricade in front of some archers soon... and a grease spell cast behind it

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

Hmm, I will have a 5ft barricade in front of some archers soon... and a grease spell cast behind it

Heheheh

10' wide corridor, some 30' to barricade 5' high, 10' wide. Spear carrying undead seen standing behind it. Unseen is the 'grease' spell on the floor squares behind the barricade, the fact that the floor itself slopes downward sharply, the spear carrying undead are only illusionary, and a spiked pit 40' deep lies at the base of the sloped, greased floor. Floor of pit lined with spikes with the 'real' spear carrying undead guarding 4 hallways leading away from the pit floor...


lol I'm going to use this concept If an illusionary spear carrying undead is not disbelieved at the barricade, do they A) get AoO on characters descending the wall, and B) get AoO as the characters go sliding by?