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Message: <blockquote data-quote="javgoro" data-source="post: 5593056" data-attributes="member: 100252">As far as I know, there is nothing in the rules to support that theory. If you provoke an AoO you can get hit, but that doesn't stop your special attack (for example, when you bull rush an opponent without improved bull rush), unless the text of the special attack specifies that case. Case in point, with trip:"Make an unarmed melee <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/combatStatistics.htm#touchAttacks" target="_blank">touch attack</a> against your target. This provokes an <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/attacksOfOpportunity.htm" target="_blank">attack of opportunity</a> from your target as normal for unarmed attacks.       If your attack succeeds..."Nowhere here does it state that your trip attempt is stopped by the attack of opportunity, regardless of its outcome.If they don't have improved grapple, they cannot grab you, because of the text of the feat (normally they could, even if you gained an AoO for whatever the cause). If they have it, they can attempt to grab you, but at that point, CCD adds the damage of your attack to your grapple check, thus improving the chance to avoid being grappled.Nothing stops you from doing that, and you can indeed trip the opponent (which would stop him trying to grapple you). That said, unless you run a trip-based build, I don't expect you to be very successful in tripping, say, a dragon. Also, remember that "you can only trip an opponent who is one size category larger than you, the same size, or smaller." (straight from the SRD), and most enemies with improved grapple tend to be more than one size category above you.If you cause damage, no. That would only be a special case when it comes to grapples. See my first answer. If you trip them, it would depend on what special damage you are trying to prevent. You couldn't, for example, stop a rend from an enemy that has hit you with both claws, as that is not a grapple, so you cannot react to it with CCD</blockquote>

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