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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Egres" data-source="post: 3429048" data-attributes="member: 23200">Don't worry.Let Deset Glad answer.RotG?Nope.From the FAQ 3.5:Is it possible for an attack of opportunity to provoke anattack of opportunity? For example, a fighter attempts totrip a cleric. The cleric chooses to make a sunder attackagainst the fighter’s weapon as his attack of opportunity.Does the sunder attack then provoke an attack ofopportunity from the fighter?Yes. An attack of opportunity is adjudicated just like anyother attack, and it is subject to the same rules (includingprovoking additional attacks of opportunity). This can lead toodd situations where as the reason for the original action nolonger exists. If this starts to confuse you, just remember thatD&D combat is an abstract representation of battle, and notnecessarily a precise second-by-second representation of everymaneuver. Even the “sequential” nature of D&D combat—Imake my attacks, then you make your attacks, then I make myattacks, and so forth—is an artificial creation used to keepcombat moving quickly.Using the example you provide, the fighter is indeedallowed to make an attack of opportunity against the cleric.(This attack could, in turn, provoke yet another attack ofopportunity from the cleric, but the cleric could make such anattack only if he were allowed more than one attack ofopportunity in a single round.)These attacks are performed in a “Last In, First Out”sequence. The last attack of opportunity declared is the first oneresolved, with the remaining attacks resolved in reverse orderof their declaration, assuming the character can still make theattack. If the fighter drops the cleric with his attack ofopportunity, the rest of the attacks in the sequence—includingthe cleric’s attack of opportunity and the fighter’s original tripattack—do not occur. The actions are still “spent,” however—the fighter doesn’t get to use that original attack on some othertarget (although if he has other attacks remaining he may takethem as normal).Did anyone note that by Deset Glad reasoning a stunned character could make AoOs?</blockquote>

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