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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skoal" data-source="post: 297995" data-attributes="member: 6402">I think the two rulings has to do with the nature of AoO's. Usually, a character provokes an attack of opportunity because he does something in a threatened space. I think Sage was saying that another character's action can't cause an attack of opportunity. In the example of the spellcaster and the fighter,  the mage was not in threatened space when he started casting the spell so his action would not have provoked an attack of opportunity. The fighter coming along because of a ready action seems like the fighters action causes the spellcaster to provoke the attack of opportunity. (I know there is some weird causality thing that goes on with readied actions happening before their triggers but). In the archer example, the fighter was already there next to the archer threatening him when the archer took an action which provoked the attack of opportunity. I believe the fighter would not have gotten an attack of opportunity if he had as a trigger, "I'll follow the archer if he shoots." since the fighter wasn't originally threatening the space where the archer's action occured.I'm sure someone out there can explain what I'm trying to say far better and tell me that I'm completely wrong.[edit] Ki Ryn already has I see.  I still don't think temporal anamolies should change the nature of AoO. I provoke it. You can't cause me to provoke it just because you got on a time machine called "ready action."[/edit]</blockquote>

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